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Reactive Attachment Disorder

Make this Your Resource When Your Challenging Child Is Presenting You an Extraordinary Challenge

September 17, 2010

A lot is written about Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and how devastating it can be. You can find many articles by therapists who most ably describe RAD and the importance of therapy for the child. Many wonderful blogs by parents describing their day-to-day experiences with a child beset by RAD are available. I want this [...]

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Why I Am Here

August 16, 2010

Raising a Challenging Child, a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), can be extremely difficult and, obviously, challenging. All too often parents don’t know what they are facing when their child shows the signs and symptoms of RAD. In all too many cases those parents do not know where to turn for help. They know [...]

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A Poem for Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder

May 17, 2010

This poem was posted to a Google list for folks who have attended Nancy Thomas Family Camps for families with children who have Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). Thank you, James, for permission to post the poem here. Uncle Joe Dedicated To Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder “It would be better for him to be thrown [...]

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Paradox for Oppositional Behavior

May 12, 2010

Molly writes, “When my child is being defiant and I tell them to sit down to rest until they are ready, they will just flat out refuse to do that. So what do I do then?” The defiance on top of defiance. Oppositional behavior and Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) often go hand in hand. I [...]

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Mother’s Day for Challenging Children

May 12, 2010

Happy Mother’s Day! A few days late with a purpose. How was Mother’s Day for your child with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)? I intentionally waited until the day after Mother’s Day to send a greeting for two reasons. First, I wanted Mother’s Day to be a day with my family to celebrate and honor the [...]

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Unattended Extreme Crying and Reactive Attachment Disorder

April 28, 2010

A few short weeks ago a young adopted boy was shipped back to Russia by his adoptive mother. The mother claimed that the boy was violent and destructive and that she could not handle the situation. She claimed, also, that she was deceived by Russian authorities when she was informed that the boy was in [...]

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Crying Babies at Risk of Brain Damage

April 23, 2010

This is so important that I simply had to publish it here right away. This is precisely one of the principal causes of Reactive Attachment Disorder. Crying babies at risk of brain damage LONDON – Distressed babies who are left to cry are at greater risk of developing problems later in life, a childcare expert [...]

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Respite Providers Wanted

April 23, 2010

Parents of children with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) want you! We absolutely need respite providers. Yesterday I was taking care of a young girl with rather serious RAD and thinking about the irony that here I was providing respite care and we have no one to help us with our daughter! The fact is that [...]

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Adopted Child with RAD Shipped Back to Russia

April 12, 2010

Last week an unheard of horrific event occurred. According to the CNN report seven year old Artyom Savelyev, almost certainly afflicted with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) was placed on an airplane by his adoptive grandmother and shipped backed to Russia. It was just last September when Torry Ann Hansen adopted Artyom. Because of his “violent” [...]

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Kids with Reactive Attachment Disorder Love to Argue: A Powerful Way to Put a Stop to It

April 2, 2010

One of the endearing behaviors of children with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is their love of argument. Oh, those kids will argue about anything. If you tell them to take out the trash, they will give you every reason you can imagine plus some more about why they should not do it. If you tell [...]

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