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Attachment, Trauma, and Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder in Children and Families

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I learned more from this book about Attachment disorder than from all the therapists my adopted children have seen combined! This book is a must for parents who have adopted children, foster children, or for those even thinking about it! It is a wealth of information on understanding what happens when the parent-child bond is interupted or not fostered, and the many ill effects of this, from ADD to oppositional defiance disorder. I finally understand why my children are the way they are and why conventional therapies have not and will not work!

Reactive Attachment Disorder, its causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment are explained clearly for both laymen and professionals. Adoptive parents, foster parents, and mental health professionals will all find this an essentiall resource for information if they have any contact at all with children suffering from RAD. PARENTS of kids with RAD - Buy this for your child's therapist and/or caseworker and it will help them understand you, your family and the problems you are facing much better!!!!!!!!! It could also save you thousands of dollars in therapy because you will stop working with people who think they understand but don't. It will help lead you to effective treatment. Lastly, if you are being charged falsely with abuse due to the actions of your child with RAD this will help you get the legal information you need to fight the charges.

This book is well organised and a very easy read. Moreover, it contains assessment tools and resources to actually help these children. It is helpful to have an overview of this controversial therapy before the family and child takes part.

This book is a must have for anyone dealing with RAD. The book is easy to read for parents, adults and therapists alike. It's comprehensive explanations of symptoms, treatment and necessary parenting style are a must read. It is eyeopening and gives one hope that there is help and understanding for families dealing with RAD. Evergreen here we come...

Many children who were abused, neglected, or exposed to domestic violence in early childhood have attachment problems. This may lead to violent and other anti-social behaviors. Any clincian helping youth with these problems should read this book. It is helpful, clear, and a great resource.
Dr. kathy Seifert
author of
How Children Become Violent - Parent Version

With the info presented, I was able to immediately put into action some of the ideas. And they worked! I feel more confident parenting and isn't that the goal of the book?

This book has many useful items in it, not least of all chapters on effective means of diagnosing attachment disorder. But for parents who have been dealing with attachment issues for many years, the book is really not great. The unfortunate fact is that kids with attachment issues tend to need a lot more help than one can find in a volume like this, and it's doubtful that even two weeks or a month-long family stay at the authors' very expensive attachment treatment center would be enough, on its own, to reverse the problem.

Having said that, the book definitely provides an important contribution to the literature on this issue, and I do wish that more mental health professionals, particularly among psychiatrists, would familiarize themselves with its contents. Very often the symptoms that accompany attachment issues and the related post-traumatic stress syndrome look like those of bi-polar disease or psychosis. But they're not "serious mental illness" in the way that traditional psychiatrists understand, and trying to plug these round pegged children into such square holes does an enormous disservice to the children, their parents, and society as a whole.

An important book for all affected by this problem.

Excellent book on attachments and trauma. I am not finished yet, but I have already found this book to be very helpful and provide key insights into understanding the children that I am counseling with currently.

This book is easy to understand and easily explains the basics in symptoms, attachment theory and practice. Solid information for all levels of interst.