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Not all Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) therapy is intensive & controversial
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<blockquote data-quote="meowbunny" data-source="post: 55480" data-attributes="member: 3626"><p>TL, sorry, I had to laugh at "dam#, now we have to look at Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)." The reaction here was pretty much the same. I requested a meeting with her therapist, psychiatrist, social worker and neuropsychologist. I asked what, exactly, were we looking at. There was hemming, hawing and finally I was told that everything but ODD, CD and Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) had been pretty much eliminated and they were trying to find some other diagnosis -- ANY OTHER DIAGNOSIS!!!! </p><p></p><p>There was a lot of hemming and hawing as I asked questions about treatment plans, prognosis, etc. The first suggestion was to have her put back into foster care. This was a suggestion I heard over and over as she grew up. This wasn't an option to me. This was my child and I would do what I could to save her. As I said above, there has been some success. Not much, but some. At least she has some empathy, some conscience, loves her pets, actually will cuddle without it being a manipulation. Who knows, she may yet grow up and be a productive adult.</p><p></p><p>As to the holding therapy, as I said, it was done here only with her permission. If she said she did not want to be held and stroked, it was not done. Fortunately, she loves being stroked and she always made it a deal -- you hold me with one arm, you pet and scratch me with the other. by the way, I was the one who refused to force her to be held. It just didn't make sense to me to force her to do something she might feel was further abuse. The rebirthing just sounded too traumatic to me and it didn't help that there had been an episode on Law & Order about a child who died while it was done.</p><p></p><p>As for over-diagnosing it, I don't think so, at least not here. Even kids in foster care get this diagnosis as a last result and even then with a lot of reluctance. They really do try to rule out everything else before saying Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). My feeling is that they feel it is just too hopeless. I have seen our county recommend over and over that a Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) child be returned to the system because of the behavior and prognosis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="meowbunny, post: 55480, member: 3626"] TL, sorry, I had to laugh at "dam#, now we have to look at Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)." The reaction here was pretty much the same. I requested a meeting with her therapist, psychiatrist, social worker and neuropsychologist. I asked what, exactly, were we looking at. There was hemming, hawing and finally I was told that everything but ODD, CD and Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) had been pretty much eliminated and they were trying to find some other diagnosis -- ANY OTHER DIAGNOSIS!!!! There was a lot of hemming and hawing as I asked questions about treatment plans, prognosis, etc. The first suggestion was to have her put back into foster care. This was a suggestion I heard over and over as she grew up. This wasn't an option to me. This was my child and I would do what I could to save her. As I said above, there has been some success. Not much, but some. At least she has some empathy, some conscience, loves her pets, actually will cuddle without it being a manipulation. Who knows, she may yet grow up and be a productive adult. As to the holding therapy, as I said, it was done here only with her permission. If she said she did not want to be held and stroked, it was not done. Fortunately, she loves being stroked and she always made it a deal -- you hold me with one arm, you pet and scratch me with the other. by the way, I was the one who refused to force her to be held. It just didn't make sense to me to force her to do something she might feel was further abuse. The rebirthing just sounded too traumatic to me and it didn't help that there had been an episode on Law & Order about a child who died while it was done. As for over-diagnosing it, I don't think so, at least not here. Even kids in foster care get this diagnosis as a last result and even then with a lot of reluctance. They really do try to rule out everything else before saying Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). My feeling is that they feel it is just too hopeless. I have seen our county recommend over and over that a Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) child be returned to the system because of the behavior and prognosis. [/QUOTE]
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