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Symptoms, Causes and Research
Symptoms
•Intense control battles, very bossy and argumentative; defiance and anger
•Resists affection on parental terms
•Lack of eye contact, especially with parents - will look into your eyes when lying
•Manipulative - superficially charming and engaging
•Indiscriminately affectionate with strangers
•Poor peer relationships
•Steals
•Lies about the obvious
•Lack of conscience - shows no remorse
•Destructive to property, self and/or others
•Lack of impulse control
•Hypervigilant/Hyperactive
•Learning lags/delays
•Speech and language problems
•Incessant chatter and/or questions
•Inappropriately demanding and/or clingy
•Food issues - hordes, gorges, refuses to eat, eats strange things, hides food
•Fascinated with fire, blood, gore, weapons, evil
•Very concerned about tiny hurts but brushes off big hurts
•Parents appear hostile and angry
•The child was neglected and/or physically abused in the first three years of life
Terry
Levy and Mike Orlans answer the question
What
is Attachment Disorder?
Symptom
Checklist
from Evergreen Consultants
Excellent
article at Tulsa Today
Enemy Within
A well-respected center in Colorado that treats RAD
The Institute for Attachment & Child Development
Potential Causes
•Neglect
•Abuse
•Separation
from the primary caregiver
•Changes
in the primary caregiver
•Frequent
moves and/or placements
•Traumatic
experiences
•Maternal
depression
•Maternal
addiction - drugs or alcohol
•Undiagnosed,
painful illness such as colic, ear infections, etc.
•Lack
of attunement between mother and child
•Young
or inexperienced mother with poor parenting skills
What is Attachment?
What
is Attachment
By Kathleen
G. Moss, LCSW, ACSW
Learn
about the work of John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth and others
Foundations
by Deborah Hage
Research and Diagnosis
DSMIV
Diagnostic criteria for 313.89
Reactive Attachment Disorder
of Infancy or Early Childhood
Behavenet
Clinical Capsule
Robin
Myeroff, PhD
Does
Attachment Therapy Work?
The
Institute for Attachment and Child Development
Randolph Attachment Disorder Questionnaire Information
The
Institute for Attachment and Child Development
Preliminary
Outcome Data
Family Attachment and Counseling Center of Minnesota
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