From the monthly archives:

July 2010

3 Effective Steps that Will Prevent Unwanted Visits from Police When Your Challenging Child is Raging

July 19, 2010

This is all about worries of unwanted law enforcement intervention when a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) has raging and violent tantrums which may requires physical restraint for the safety of everyone. Our sweet RADish, healing as she is, still has fits of tantrum and rage. She is known to kick and scream, just [...]

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Developmental Trauma Disorder: A Better Diagnosis for Challenging Children?

July 6, 2010

Back in May I described the proposed new diagnosis of Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD). Whether or not DTD would replace Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is beyond my expertise or, frankly, concern. I do know is that it presents a much clearer picture of my RADish’s difficulties than does RAD. For now RAD and Post Traumatic [...]

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