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Can someone explain me more about Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) & therapies for it
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 550839" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Sorry, my orginal post was probably confusing. I didn't mean I had read anything about quick fixes or questionable methods from here. I did read about Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) that clearly is something else than Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) I knew beforehand (ICD/DSM-Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) doesn't really speak about behavioural problems, only about attachment.) This other Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) seems to have a lot to do with very disturbing behaviours. I followed some links I did find here and followed some other links from those pages etc. And that was when I started to find methods I think questionable and very harsh and kind of quick fix approach. I didn't want to imply that anyone here would be a fan of those methods, but I just wanted to ask more information about the topic. For example if you know, how popular that kind of approach really is (In Internet it easy to make anything look big and almost mainstream.) Some of the criteria I saw (and even one test about if your child could have Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) or something) was very inclusive. In fact even my easy child would have qualified for 'possible Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)' and 'dangerous to live home at' with that test. I do understand that page was only trying to sell some therapy/two week intensive camp/whatever, that would solve all problems in the child and was not credible source at all. And of course it is easier to miracle cure a child who really doesn't have much a problem to begin with, so better to make it look like typical, even quite mild, pubescent moodiness (like with my easy child) would be a sure sign of pudding serial killer and treat that. At the time I just found it weird and possibly abusive but mostly just shrugged it off. </p><p></p><p>It was only when I read about this local case, that really has a lot of similarities to this other form of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and it's treatment, that I begun to think about the matter more and became curious how 'popular' this concept really is in USA and how common these alternative treatments are? In this local case it seems clear that the child didn't have Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and wasn't too disturbed in other ways either. Neither can I believe that parents thought they were treating Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), or maybe father did, because he may have believed that child had exhibited all those disturbing behaviours mother claimed she had. But anyway their actions were so purely sadistic (they for example videotaped many of the torture and humiliation sessions) that it is difficult to believe in any 'better motives.' And parents can not even claim getting tired and not having help. They fight to get kid back from foster care and killed the child right before they believed she would be taken back to care (after several complaints from teachers, neighbours etc.) So kid would had been out of their hands in few days anyway. So this case certainly isn't about Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) treatment went awry, but someone copying many Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) 'treatment methods' to torture other human being.</p><p></p><p>But many of those methods are so, that it is easy to see, how easily they could turn to abuse with frustrating child even when applied with the purest motives.</p><p></p><p>You are very right that no one seems to believe in quick fixes or magic pills in this forum. While i'm sure everyone of us would love to get that magic pill or quick fix method, and at times may say it aloud, I think we are all too battle weary to believe magic pills or tooth faeries any more. (I do hold for my believe in Santa Claus though)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 550839, member: 14557"] Sorry, my orginal post was probably confusing. I didn't mean I had read anything about quick fixes or questionable methods from here. I did read about Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) that clearly is something else than Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) I knew beforehand (ICD/DSM-Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) doesn't really speak about behavioural problems, only about attachment.) This other Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) seems to have a lot to do with very disturbing behaviours. I followed some links I did find here and followed some other links from those pages etc. And that was when I started to find methods I think questionable and very harsh and kind of quick fix approach. I didn't want to imply that anyone here would be a fan of those methods, but I just wanted to ask more information about the topic. For example if you know, how popular that kind of approach really is (In Internet it easy to make anything look big and almost mainstream.) Some of the criteria I saw (and even one test about if your child could have Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) or something) was very inclusive. In fact even my easy child would have qualified for 'possible Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)' and 'dangerous to live home at' with that test. I do understand that page was only trying to sell some therapy/two week intensive camp/whatever, that would solve all problems in the child and was not credible source at all. And of course it is easier to miracle cure a child who really doesn't have much a problem to begin with, so better to make it look like typical, even quite mild, pubescent moodiness (like with my easy child) would be a sure sign of pudding serial killer and treat that. At the time I just found it weird and possibly abusive but mostly just shrugged it off. It was only when I read about this local case, that really has a lot of similarities to this other form of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and it's treatment, that I begun to think about the matter more and became curious how 'popular' this concept really is in USA and how common these alternative treatments are? In this local case it seems clear that the child didn't have Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and wasn't too disturbed in other ways either. Neither can I believe that parents thought they were treating Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), or maybe father did, because he may have believed that child had exhibited all those disturbing behaviours mother claimed she had. But anyway their actions were so purely sadistic (they for example videotaped many of the torture and humiliation sessions) that it is difficult to believe in any 'better motives.' And parents can not even claim getting tired and not having help. They fight to get kid back from foster care and killed the child right before they believed she would be taken back to care (after several complaints from teachers, neighbours etc.) So kid would had been out of their hands in few days anyway. So this case certainly isn't about Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) treatment went awry, but someone copying many Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) 'treatment methods' to torture other human being. But many of those methods are so, that it is easy to see, how easily they could turn to abuse with frustrating child even when applied with the purest motives. You are very right that no one seems to believe in quick fixes or magic pills in this forum. While i'm sure everyone of us would love to get that magic pill or quick fix method, and at times may say it aloud, I think we are all too battle weary to believe magic pills or tooth faeries any more. (I do hold for my believe in Santa Claus though) [/QUOTE]
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