41. Attachment Center A Columbia, South Carolina treatment center for children with attachment disorder. Find information about program philosophy, methods, and fees. http://www.children-unlimited.org/attachment_center_of_south_carol.htm

Children Unlimited of Family Service Center of SC About Special Needs Adoption Clinical Services Therapist Manual ... Register for Workshops/Conferences ATTACHMENT CENTER of SOUTH CAROLINA @ Children Unlimited of Family Service Center of SC 1825 Gadsden Street Columbia, SC 29201 Fax: 803-765-0284 e-mail: jcorrigan@children-unlimited.org or www.Children-Unlimited.org Program Philosophy Children Unlimited, Inc. is a private non-profit agency that was founded in 1977. Our mission has always been to find adoptive homes and clinical resources for children with special needs. These children have a variety of emotional, educational, medical and, sometimes, physical disorders. Twenty-five years later, our mission has expanded to include assisting all families, birth and adoptive, to find permanence and stability. In May of 1998 the Attachment Center of South Carolina (ACSC) officially opened. This was a long time dream for the agency since we have been serving clients and training therapists since 1989. We provide treatment for children with attachment problems/disorders, including Reactive Attachment Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and other related disorders. We treat many children who, along with their attachment problems, have co-morbid conditions such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, ADHD and other conditions. Target Population We will consider working with any child from birth to twenty-one years of age. The majority of the ACSC’s clients are children ages four to sixteen who have been adopted or who are in the foster care system. We treat children with histories of abuse and neglect, multiple placements, histories of institutional care, and internationally adopted children. We have also treated children who live with their birth families. All services are on an outpatient basis.

42. Institute For Attachment & Family Development ::: What Is Attachment Disorder An attachment disorder is a condition in which individuals have difficultyforming loving, lasting intimate relationships. Attachment http://www.attachmentcenter.org/whatisit.htm

How can we help you? Click here and let us know. Text Only Version Home About Us ... Evergreen Conference Center A n attachment disorder is a condition in which individuals have difficulty forming loving, lasting intimate relationships. Attachment disorders vary in severity, but the term is usually reserved for individuals who show a nearly complete lack of ability to be genuinely affectionate with others. They typically fail to develop a conscience and do not learn to trust. Children with healthy attachments to a loving caregiver ... Feel secure and loved Can attain their potential Can develop reciprocal relationships Develop a conscience Cope with stress and anxiety Become self-reliant Children who do not have healthy attachments with a loving caregiver . . . Do not trust caregivers or adults in authority.

43. Reactive Attachment Disorder: Description, Criteria, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment , Criteria, Causes, Symptoms, Treatmentsand Medications. Reactive attachment disorder. Also known as Description.......Reactive attachment disorder http://www.mental-health-matters.com/disorders/dis_details.php?disID=80

44. Attachment Disorder Support Group Promoting the education and understanding of reactive attachment disorder and providing support to those parents tasked with the journey of raising children with special needs. http://www.syix.com/adsg/index.htm

Welcome! W elcome to the Attachment Disorder Support Group! Here you will find information on attachment disorder, bonding, special needs children, real life testimonials, people, and much more! You will find families that have adopted children, foster children, step children, and biological children. Make yourself comfortable, for there is a great deal of information available on this site. I hope you enjoy your visit. For those of you who are new to this site you may be stressed to your limits and wondering if there is any hope. Yes, there is hope! Change will take time and research. It is imperative that you have a support group around you of family and/or friends. There are several options for you here on ADSG. You may chat on the message forum or in the Live Chat Room . People you meet through ADSG will understand your needs, and together you can build a network of strength, hope and joy. "Tonight, when you lay your head on your pillow, forget how far you still have to go. Look instead at how far you've already come."

45. Attachment Disorder Checklist Go to MHM Bookstore. attachment disorder Checklist. A professional assessmentis necessary to determine whether or not a child has an attachment disorder. http://www.mental-health-matters.com/articles/article.php?artID=573

46. Attachment Disorder Help - Martha G. Welch Center A Stamford, Connecticut center using regulatory bonding therapy used as a treatment for children with attachment disorder. Find a description of services available, as well as forum areas for parents and therapists. http://www.marthawelch.com

Patient Privacy Practices New and improved Welch Method CD-ROM Holding Time by Martha G. Welch, MD The Martha Welch Center provides highly specialized complex, comprehensive and Intensive Family Treatment therapy and training for families with children suffering from developmental, behavioral, and affective disorders including Reactive Attachment Disorder and many other associated disorders. We believe there is no such thing as a child too old, or too young, or too damaged to benefit from our program. Several factors, however, are essential for admission to a treatment program. First, there must be a committed and dedicated mother willing to put in the time and energy at home to follow through with the regulatory bonding process. Second, the family must be willing to explore the complex nature of its regulatory bond system. Third, there must be a family support network at home, be it husband, children, grandparents or close relatives who are willing to enter into the treatment program with the mother and child. (In the absence of such, a qualified professional could be used). Welch Method Regulatory Bonding has been used effectively in the treatment of a wide range of behavioral problems, including the following:

47. EMedicine - Child Abuse & Neglect: Reactive Attachment Disorder : Article By Mar Child Abuse Neglect Reactive attachment disorder attachment disorders are thepsychological result of negative experiences with caregivers, usually since http://www.emedicine.com/PED/topic2646.htm

(advertisement) Home Specialties Resource Centers CME ... Patient Education Articles Images CME Patient Education Advanced Search Consumer Health Link to this site Back to: eMedicine Specialties Pediatrics Last Updated: February 28, 2003 Rate this Article Email to a Colleague Synonyms and related keywords: RAD, attachment disorder, hospitalism, disorder of nonattachment, promiscuous attachment disorder, disinhibited attachment disorder, disinhibited reactive attachment disorder, disinhibited RAD, inhibited attachment disorder, inhibited reactive attachment disorder, inhibited RAD, reversed attachment, angry attachment AUTHOR INFORMATION Section 1 of 10 Author Information Introduction Clinical Differentials ... Bibliography Author: Martin Maldonado-Durán, MD , Principal Investigator for Child and Family Center, Department of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Division, Menninger Clinic Coauthor(s): Linda Helmig, PhD , Child Psychologist, Researcher, Department of Child and Family Center, Menninger Clinic; Teresa Lartigue, PhD

48. Attachment Disorder Help - Center For Family Development A Williamsville, New York center for the treatment of reactive attachment disorder, offering two week intensives, and evaluations for adopted and foster children. http://www.Center4FamilyDevelop.com

Welcome The Center for Family Development is Western New York's only attachment center specializing in the treatment of adopted and foster families with trauma and attachment disorders. Our professionals have the knowledge, skills, personal experiences, and professional training to help adoptive and foster families with attachment concerns. The Center for family Development has focused much of its efforts on helping adoptive and foster families. The needs of adoptive families are unique and very few professionals understand these families and their special problems. The Center for Family Development was founded by Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman to provide answers to questions, solutions to problems, and the expert support necessary for families to thrive in these turbulent times. Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman and his associates are dedicated to helping adoptive families achieve their potential. All members of the Center For Family Development are licensed, skilled, and highly trained professionals with at least twenty years experience helping families. At the Center For Family Development we only begin working with families after completing a thorough assessment. We carefully evaluate the child and the family. Our success rate is now over 95%. Success means that the child has developed the capacity to love and be loved and is functioning at least at about 80% of the level you'd expect for a child that age.

49. FAS/ARND Or Attachment Disorder? FAS/ARND or attachment disorder? Q I m so confused. FAS and Reactiveattachment disorder NEW! Read another Q A on FAS and Attachment. http://www.come-over.to/FAS/Attachment2.htm

FAS/ARND or Attachment Disorder? Q: I'm so confused. After reading all the info on FAS/ARND, I was pretty confident that this was what my two adopted sons have. Now after reading info on attachment disorders, I see they have some of those symptoms, but more FAE/FAS. What is the difference? Pretty soon they will be seeing someone that deals with attachment disorders - will they be able to know which is which? A: Sometimes there is not much difference between FAS/ARND and attachment disorders because sometimes kids have both. Attachment disorders can be mild or severe. They can be caused by abuse, neglect, trauma of multiple placements, and/or lack of bonding with the primary caregiver. Attachment disorders can also be caused by alcohol exposure before birth. Most kids with FAS/ARND have some degree of attachment disorders. It is hard to tell how much is from their early years before being placed in a stable, permanent home and how much was present at birth due to brain damage from alcohol. We have seen many children with FAS/ARND who were placed in healthy nurturing homes from the very first day who still display symptoms of attacment disorder, from mild to severe. So we do know that a substantial part of it is neurological dysfunction, in which case the typical psychological therapies might not be very effective, because those are based on the assumption that it is entirely due to lack of healthy bonding. It could be partly this, in the case of children who have been bounced around, but therapists should also look at the possibility of permanent brain damage, in which the focus of therapy might be adjusted.

50. Wisconsin Attachment Resource Network A nonprofit organization dedicated to statewide education on child attachment issues. Find information about child attachment, attachment disorder, as well as parenting and bonding techniques. Includes local news and events. http://www.w-a-r-n.com

"Dedicated to the Education of Child Attachment" PLEASE SELECT NEXT PAGE: SELECT PAGE: BASIC RAD INFORMATION 1. Child Attachment 2. Reactive Attachment Disorder 3. Parenting Techniques 4. Bonding Techniques 5. Treatment -ORGANIZATION INFORMATION- 1. About Us 3. We Will Speak 5. GuestBook 6. Your Feedback/Story Submit Form 7. Print Donation Form 1. Wisconsin Resources 2. Inspirational Poems of Support 3. Therapists Needed 4. Lawyers Needed 5. Additional Web Resources ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 1. Special - Colorado Tragedy 2. Back To: Main Page Wisconsin Attachment Resource Network Dousman, WI. 53118

51. Tapllink A Pennsylvania based support system for adoptive, foster, and kinship families. Includes information about attachment disorder, sexual abuse, and other concerns. Find resources and support within the state. http://www.taplink.org

TAPLINK Support for Pennsylvania TAPLINK is dedicated to providing support to adoptive, foster and kinship families in Pennsylvania. Together as Adoptive Parents Inc. (TAP) Our services are accomplished in a variety of ways; warmline, newsletter, web site, resource directory, conferences, and monthly parent group meetings. Derek and Phyllis Stevens have one birth child and four adopted. All four have special needs. In 1988 after adopting their third child who is mentally challenged, they founded Together as Adoptive Parents Inc. (formally Tabor Adoptive Parents). The goals of TAP are: Promoting Healthy Outcomes for Adopted Children Our belief is that every adoptive, foster, and kinship family has the right to accessible support services and this site is here to help you find those services. If you cannot find the information that you need on our site please contact us at (215) 256-0669. We will do our best to help you. For information on adopting some of Pennsylvania's waiting children visit www.adoptpakids.org

52. Reactive Attachment Disorder - AACAP Facts For Families #85 REACTIVE attachment disorder. 85, (11/02). Reactive attachment disorderis a complex psychiatric illness that can affect young children. http://www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/85.htm

R EACTIVE A TTACHMENT D ISORDER Reactive Attachment Disorder is a complex psychiatric illness that can affect young children. It is characterized by serious problems in emotional attachments to others and usually presents by age 5. A parent, daycare provider or physician may notice that a child has problems with emotional attachment by their first birthday. Often, a parent brings an infant or very young child to the doctor with one or more of the following concerns: severe colic and/or feeding difficulties failure to gain weight detached and unresponsive behavior difficulty being comforted preoccupied and/or defiant behavior inhibition or hesitancy in social interactions Some children with Reactive Attachment Disorder may also be overly or inappropriately social or familiar with strangers. The physical, emotional and social problems associated with Reactive Attachment Disorder may persist as the child grows older. The cause of Reactive Attachment Disorder is not known. Most children with this disorder have had severe problems or disruptions in their early relationships. Many have been physically or emotionally abused or neglected. Some have experienced inadequate care in an institutional setting or other out-of-home placement (for example a hospital, residential program, foster care or orphanage). Others have had multiple or traumatic losses or changes in their primary caregiver. Children who exhibit signs of Reactive Attachment Disorder need a comprehensive psychiatric assessment and individualized treatment plan. These signs or symptoms may also be found in other psychiatric disorders. A child should never be given this label or diagnosis without a comprehensive evaluation. Treatment of this complex disorder involves both the child and the family. Without treatment, this condition can permanently effect a child's social and emotional development.

53. Kuddle Kids Korner Information and techniques that help in the day to day parenting of children with attachment disorder. Includes techniques to facilitate attachment and bonding. http://www.kuddlekids.com/

Contact Us Sponsored by the American Legion Child Welfare Foundation, Inc. Walk with our family as we raise six birth children and three adopted children. Share with us our experiences with over fifty foster children we have loved and lost. Share our tears and fears, exasperation and frustration, love and laughter, peace and joy that each child has brought into our home and our hearts.

54. Policy Statement: Coercive Interventions For Reactive Attachment Disorder Reactive attachment disorder is a complex psychiatric illness that is characterizedby problems in forming and maintaining emotional attachments with others. http://www.aacap.org/publications/policy/ps48.htm

P OLICY S TATEMENT C OERCIVE I NTERVENTIONS FOR R EACTIVE A TTACHMENT D ISORDER Approved by Council November, 2003 Developed by the Child Abuse and Neglect Committee Reactive Attachment Disorder is a complex psychiatric illness that is characterized by problems in forming and maintaining emotional attachments with others. These difficulties are usually present by 5 years of age, and may be detected during the first year of life. These children may appear detached, unresponsive, inhibited or reluctant to engage in age-appropriate social interactions. Alternatively, some children with Reactive Attachment Disorder may be overly and inappropriately social or familiar, even with strangers. Reactive Attachment Disorder can be difficult to diagnose. Most children with Reactive Attachment Disorder have had problems or severe disruptions in their early relationships. Many have been physically, sexually or emotionally abused or neglected. Others have had multiple traumatic losses or changes in their primary caretaker. Many severely traumatized children present with complex problems and symptoms, but only partially meet diagnostic criteria for Reactive Attachment Disorder. Reactive Attachment Disorder is sometimes confused with Pervasive Developmental Disorder or other neurological disorders including deafness, and genetic disorders that may mimic signs of Reactive Attachment Disorder. Because of these diagnostic difficulties, children who exhibit signs of Reactive Attachment Disorder require comprehensive psychiatric evaluation and individualized treatment plans by professionals who are expert in the differential diagnosis and treatment of these complex disorders. Treatment usually includes both individual and family interventions. In extreme cases of Reactive Attachment Disorder that are complicated by self-endangering behavior, placement in a safe, therapeutic setting may be necessary. Nevertheless, family settings that maximize opportunities for the child to develop selective attachments are usually most helpful.

55. The Enemy Within An article by Linda Ann Smith on the subject, offering insight into attachment disorder with regard to school issues and symptoms in infants and toddlers. http://www.tulsatoday.com/attachment.htm

Attachment Disorders Part 1 The Enemy Within by Linda Ann Smith The smell of singed hair filled the classroom. A young girl grasped her smoldering pigtail and ran screaming to the teacher. Scott walked quietly to the front of the room. He dropped a book of matches and a scorched piece of paper into the wastebasket. He seemed unaware of the hysterical girl who was clinging to her third grade teacher. The other students, paralyzed with horror, watched silently as Scott brushed ashes from his sleeve. On the way back to his seat, Scott spit on one of his classmates and "accidentally" bumped into another. As if nothing unusual had happened, Scott settled himself at his desk. Scott is an unattached child. Healthy attachments begin in early infancy. The infant experiences pain, hunger, or discomfort and expresses rage by crying. The infant's primary caregiver (usually the mother) responds to the infant's rage reaction with eye contact, touch, motion, or food. The infant learns to trust his caregiver for comfort and the bonding process begins. This bonding cycle is repeated countless times during the infant's first year of life. Uninterrupted repetition of the cycle results in a strong trust bond between infant and caregiver. Attachment disorders result when the infant's needs are not gratified. Kathy Miller, founder and president of The Attachment Network in Oklahoma, explains, "When an infant expresses rage and feels no relief for his need, he learns that to survive this world, he must control it. These children actually believe that if they release control to anyone else that they will die."

56. Home Page An author and a developmental neuropsychologist, based in Alexandria, Virginia and specializing in the treatment of children with attachment disorder, including international adoptees. http://www.drfederici.com

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57. What Is RAD? Offers informational products, resources, and hope for those who carefor children with attachment disorder. attachment disorder Symptoms. http://www.nancythomasparenting.com/rad.htm

What is Attachment Disorder/ Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)? Attachment is defined as the affectional tie between two people. It begins with the bond between the infant and mother. This bond becomes internally representative of how the child will form relationships with the world. Bowlby stated "the initial relationship between self and others serves as blueprints for all future relationships." (Bowlby, 1975) Attachment Disorder is defined as the condition in which individuals have difficulty forming lasting relationships. They often show nearly a complete lack of ability to be genuinely affectionate with others. They typically fail to develop a conscience and do not learn to trust. They do not allow people to be in control of them due to this trust issue. This damage is done by being abused or physically or emotionally separated from one primary caregiver during the first 3 years of life. "If a child is not attached-does not form a loving bond with the mother-he does not develop an attachment to the rest of mankind. The unattached child literally does not have a stake in humanity" (Magid & McKelvey 1988) They do not think and feel like a normal person. "At the core of the unattached is a deep-seated rage, far beyond normal anger. This rage is suppressed in their psyche. Now we all have some degree of rage, but the rage of psychopaths is that born of unfulfilled needs as infants. Incomprehensible pain is forever locked In their souls, because of the abandonment they felt as infants." (Magid & McKelvey 1988) "There is an inability to love or feel guilty. There is no conscience. Their inability to enter into any relationship makes treatment or even education impossible." (Bowlby 1955) Some infamous people with Attachment Disorder that did not get help in time: Adolph Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Edgar Allen Poe, Jeffery Dahmer, and Ted Bundy. One famous person with Attachment Disorder who did get help in time (in 1887!) and became one of greatest humanitarians is Helen Keller.

58. Heal The Hearts Advocate group that provides the public with information, parents with support, resources, and scholarships for reactive attachment disorder therapy. http://www.healtheheart.org/

Heal the Hearts was created to prom ote understanding and education of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) , for parents and professionals dealing with children diagnosed with RAD. The exposure to stress with some children has been so significant that they stand outside of any category of severity. These children give trauma a new definition. Most are or have been in foster care, have had repeated life or death experiences, have had several changes in caregivers, all have suffered from some form of emotional, sexual, or physical abuse, and generally they have never been successfully treated. The most popular term for these children is Attachment Disorder, however, most have received every diagnosis available for severe emotional and behavioral disturbances ranging from attention-deficit hyperactivity to bi-polar and depression. In addition, most have received various combinations of psychotropic medication. We are not just one part without the other, our mind, body, and soul are all connected. In healing our children and ourselves, we must treat all three parts. Traditional therapies tend to treat the mind only. Whereas, the work I do with you helps you connect all three parts, and create the balance necessary for harmonious daily living. Yes, harmonious living can be achieved. By using

59. BehaveNet® Clinical Capsule™: Reactive Attachment Disorder DSMIV Reactive attachment disorder. Diagnostic criteria for 313.89 Reactiveattachment disorder of Infancy or Early Childhood (cautionary statement). http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/disorders/reactatt.htm

BehaveNet DSM-IV: Reactive Attachment Disorder Children with this mental disorder , associated with care that is "grossly pathological," fail to relate socially either by exhibiting markedly inhibited behavior or by indiscriminate social behavior. Diagnostic criteria for 313.89 Reactive Attachment Disorder of Infancy or Early Childhood cautionary statement A. Markedly disturbed and developmentally inappropriate social relatedness in most contexts, beginning before age 5 years, as evidenced by either (1) or (2): (1) persistent failure to initiate or respond in a developmentally appropriate fashion to most social interactions, as manifest by excessively inhibited, hypervigilant, or highly ambivalent and contradictory responses (e.g., the child may respond to caregivers with a mixture of approach, avoidance, and resistance to comforting, or may exhibit frozen watchfulness) (2) diffuse attachments as manifest by indiscriminate sociability with marked inability to exhibit appropriate selective attachments (e.g., excessive familiarity with relative strangers or lack of selectivity in choice of attachment figures) B. The disturbance in Criterion A is not accounted for solely by developmental delay (as in

60. Hudson Valley Family Attachments - Home - Hudson Valley Family Attachments Florida, New York. Counseling, support and advocacy services for adoptive, foster and kinship families, specializing in attachment disorders and PTSD. http://www.hudsonvalleyfamilyattachments.bigstep.com

Home About Us Services Contact Us Welcome to the Hudson Valley Family Attachments web site. We are a non-profit agency that specializes in providing clinical, educational, advocacy, support and outreach services to adoptive, foster and kinship families. Hudson Valley Family Attachments hvfa4@frontiernet.net p: f: US

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