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<blockquote data-quote="timer lady" data-source="post: 257193" data-attributes="member: 393"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Step,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">I haven't read the previous replies.....sorry if I'm being repetitive.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">There are very very specific criteria for a diagnosis of reactive attachment disorder. Very specific criteria. A psychiatrist with a specialty in this area (i.e. a practice with lots of attachment disordered kids, practice in RTCs, group homes, etc, with the main population of adopted/foster/neglected or abused children). This diagnosis isn't given out lightly nor should be.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><a href="http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/disorders/reactatt.htm" target="_blank">http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/disorders/reactatt.htm</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Additionally, there is a spectrum, if you will, from mild attachment/adoption issues to full blown reactive attachment disorder. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">The tweedles were diagnosis'd with this disorder before the age of 5; the gov't sat on this information until I went to court to obtain all of their medical/psychiatric records. There needs to be multiple changes in primary caregivers (i.e. many foster situations for long periods of time); not daycare or grandma or grandpa stepping in to help a parent during work or for a week or two.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Steph, I'm sharing this with you because you need to know the facts. If you head down the road of attachment therapy & difficult child isn't attachment disordered you've lost possibly years of treatment. The prognosis is poor at best.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Of late, I've seen this diagnosis handed out in very inappropriate settings & it angers me for the child. I could see the attachment disordered children when I'd visit wm or kt at the p-hospital or Residential Treatment Center (RTC). You just know which kids have it & which ones have other issues. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">by the way, if there is some level of sexual abuse in the past you're possibly dealing with PTSD or severe or complex PTSD versus Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">I hope this helps clear your mind a bit.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timer lady, post: 257193, member: 393"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Step, I haven't read the previous replies.....sorry if I'm being repetitive. There are very very specific criteria for a diagnosis of reactive attachment disorder. Very specific criteria. A psychiatrist with a specialty in this area (i.e. a practice with lots of attachment disordered kids, practice in RTCs, group homes, etc, with the main population of adopted/foster/neglected or abused children). This diagnosis isn't given out lightly nor should be. [URL]http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/disorders/reactatt.htm[/URL] Additionally, there is a spectrum, if you will, from mild attachment/adoption issues to full blown reactive attachment disorder. The tweedles were diagnosis'd with this disorder before the age of 5; the gov't sat on this information until I went to court to obtain all of their medical/psychiatric records. There needs to be multiple changes in primary caregivers (i.e. many foster situations for long periods of time); not daycare or grandma or grandpa stepping in to help a parent during work or for a week or two. Steph, I'm sharing this with you because you need to know the facts. If you head down the road of attachment therapy & difficult child isn't attachment disordered you've lost possibly years of treatment. The prognosis is poor at best. Of late, I've seen this diagnosis handed out in very inappropriate settings & it angers me for the child. I could see the attachment disordered children when I'd visit wm or kt at the p-hospital or Residential Treatment Center (RTC). You just know which kids have it & which ones have other issues. by the way, if there is some level of sexual abuse in the past you're possibly dealing with PTSD or severe or complex PTSD versus Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). I hope this helps clear your mind a bit. [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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