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Attachment therapy? What is it? Do all adopted kids need it?
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<blockquote data-quote="pepperidge" data-source="post: 401615" data-attributes="member: 2322"><p>I got a comment from school wondering whether we had had attachment therapy as a family for my fetal alcohol kid. </p><p></p><p>-Aside from not appreciating comments from school that imply that we need to be doing certain things in family therapy (and no none of the ten plus mental health providers we have seen since he was 16 mos have put that forward as an issue for this child)</p><p></p><p>- aside from having had a bad experience early on in our therapy career for my oldest from a young therapist just completing her thesis on how all adoptees suffer from attachment issues caused by the trauma of mother child bond being disrupted from day one,</p><p></p><p> and aside from thinking this kid had clear identifiable brain damage issues so attachment issues seem somewhat second order, can someone enlighten me as to what attachment therapy is for non Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) kids? </p><p></p><p>And yes, I believe that adoption is a difficult thing for many adopted kids and that it is something they must come to terms with often with the aid of therapy at the appropriate time in their lives, but for those of us with adopted kids with clear mental health or other challenges, I amt tired of the "adoption must be the root cause of all adopted kids issues" that I hear sometimes.</p><p></p><p>Sorry just venting, please enlighten me about attachment therapy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pepperidge, post: 401615, member: 2322"] I got a comment from school wondering whether we had had attachment therapy as a family for my fetal alcohol kid. -Aside from not appreciating comments from school that imply that we need to be doing certain things in family therapy (and no none of the ten plus mental health providers we have seen since he was 16 mos have put that forward as an issue for this child) - aside from having had a bad experience early on in our therapy career for my oldest from a young therapist just completing her thesis on how all adoptees suffer from attachment issues caused by the trauma of mother child bond being disrupted from day one, and aside from thinking this kid had clear identifiable brain damage issues so attachment issues seem somewhat second order, can someone enlighten me as to what attachment therapy is for non Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) kids? And yes, I believe that adoption is a difficult thing for many adopted kids and that it is something they must come to terms with often with the aid of therapy at the appropriate time in their lives, but for those of us with adopted kids with clear mental health or other challenges, I amt tired of the "adoption must be the root cause of all adopted kids issues" that I hear sometimes. Sorry just venting, please enlighten me about attachment therapy. [/QUOTE]
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