My 16 yo AD spent two weeks at a local shelter for troubled teens and runaways, and after six weeks back at home she is now at the Juvenile Detention Center due to a third arrest on a charge of domestic battery (against me). Her negative behaviors and attitudes seem to match all of the symptoms for Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) ("reactive attachment disorder"):
-- need to control
-- fear of closeness
-- lack of reciprocity (self-centered, dishonest)
-- angry and defiant
-- no empathy or remorse
How do I teach this child to trust, cooperate, empathize and have a conscience? There are programs like the XXX Institute in Colorado that look really good, but I am a retired, single Mom and cannot afford something like that.
-- need to control
-- fear of closeness
-- lack of reciprocity (self-centered, dishonest)
-- angry and defiant
-- no empathy or remorse
How do I teach this child to trust, cooperate, empathize and have a conscience? There are programs like the XXX Institute in Colorado that look really good, but I am a retired, single Mom and cannot afford something like that.