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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: 550908" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Which would likely explain quick fix idea. The parents may be desperate and ready to pay what they can afford (and some more) but that isn't much, so they sell short, quick fix approach, which wouldn't be that expensive. Of course there was no prices in those webpages, but I think they are likely to be high.</p><p></p><p>'Treatment' seemed to be very obedience based and to be frank, punitive. Idea seemed to be to take all control away from child (have to ask for everything, a lot of isolation, no free time or time to play, lot of chores, harsh 'logical consequences', keeping child in the state of not knowing about big things in their life (like how long they would be kept in treatment and if they would be allowed to go back home at all), children having to earn everything, even normal food, rather cold attitude to child if you ask me), very mother-centric ideas (only attachment between mother and child really matters etc.), connecting attachment and obedience and some very weird ideas of transferring attachment from therapeutic parent to real parent (by basically making a child do obedience training tricks with mom.) Also really a lot of talk how nothing else but this Attchment Therapy works with these kids and all mainstream therapies just make these kids worse.</p><p></p><p>I do get that for traumatised child clear boundaries and structure can create feeling of safety. But child doesn't learn empathy if they are not showed it and that was not something those 'treatments' seemed to do. They seemed to be meant for shocking kids to short term obedience, nothing more. I do get that some traumatized kids are so damaged that they can not be helped and need to be looked after very strictly to prevent them harming others or themselves. But I very much doubt that those kids are helped any more by frankly abusing them some more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 550908, member: 14557"] Which would likely explain quick fix idea. The parents may be desperate and ready to pay what they can afford (and some more) but that isn't much, so they sell short, quick fix approach, which wouldn't be that expensive. Of course there was no prices in those webpages, but I think they are likely to be high. 'Treatment' seemed to be very obedience based and to be frank, punitive. Idea seemed to be to take all control away from child (have to ask for everything, a lot of isolation, no free time or time to play, lot of chores, harsh 'logical consequences', keeping child in the state of not knowing about big things in their life (like how long they would be kept in treatment and if they would be allowed to go back home at all), children having to earn everything, even normal food, rather cold attitude to child if you ask me), very mother-centric ideas (only attachment between mother and child really matters etc.), connecting attachment and obedience and some very weird ideas of transferring attachment from therapeutic parent to real parent (by basically making a child do obedience training tricks with mom.) Also really a lot of talk how nothing else but this Attchment Therapy works with these kids and all mainstream therapies just make these kids worse. I do get that for traumatised child clear boundaries and structure can create feeling of safety. But child doesn't learn empathy if they are not showed it and that was not something those 'treatments' seemed to do. They seemed to be meant for shocking kids to short term obedience, nothing more. I do get that some traumatized kids are so damaged that they can not be helped and need to be looked after very strictly to prevent them harming others or themselves. But I very much doubt that those kids are helped any more by frankly abusing them some more. [/QUOTE]
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