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Stop Playing the Reactive Attachment Disorder Blame Game

August 2, 2010

I have not written recently. I have felt stuck. I now know why. There has been a seemingly endless stream of comments on Twitter and elsewhere about the causes of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) which blame birth parents. By the same token others write that RAD is way overblown, that causes of the behavior problems [...]

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Assumptions

February 19, 2010

Kids with Reactive Attachment Disorder can be incredibly mischievous, to put it mildly. Classicly, kids with RAD are sneaky, they steal, they lye, and so on. The list of unpleasant and unacceptable behaviors is long. It is very easy to assume that if something is missing, broken or out of order that our RADish is [...]

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