Residential Childcare Workers’ Knowledge of Reactive Attachment Disorder

Reactive Disorder Reactive Attachment Disorder: A Review

13 Reactive attachment disorder in adolescence

Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) has received increasing attention as a possible explanation of severe behavioral disturbances in children and adolescents. Its etiology is hypothesized as related to failure of attachment beginning in infancy. Although the diagnosis of reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is usually made in early childhood, the diagnosis may be carried over into adolescence. In ...

Reactive attachment disorder: an evolving entity.

g t l n T o put into deserved perspective the contribution that Gleason and colleagues make in this issue of the Journal, theirs is one of the most extensive validation studies to date of reactive attachment disorder (RAD). The investigators sought to validate RAD with approaches derived from the classic 1970 article by Robins and Guze. The study focused primarily on four complementary aspects ...

Report of the APSAC task force on attachment therapy, reactive attachment disorder, and attachment problems.

Although the term attachment disorder is ambiguous, attachment therapies are increasingly used with children who are maltreated, particularly those in foster care or adoptive homes. Some children described as having attachment disorders show extreme disturbances. The needs of these children and their caretakers are real. How to meet their needs is less clear. A number of attachment-based treatm...

Disinhibited Reactive Attachment Disorder symptoms impair social judgements from faces Running head: Trustworthiness and Reactive Attachment Disorder

In typically developing populations, adults and children can come to a consensus regarding the trustworthiness of unfamiliar faces very rapidly. Maltreated children can have problems with trusting others, yet those with the disinhibited form of Reactive Attachment Disorder (dRAD) can be indiscriminately friendly. However, whether children with dRAD symptoms appraise and conform to typical judge...