Reactive Attachment Disorder: A Preventable Mental Health Disease

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 ...

Effective Practice Based Therapeutic Techniques with Children Diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder: From the Perspective of Mental Health Professionals

Children diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) have experienced pathological care and disruption of early attachment experiences, resulting in disorganized attachment with caregivers, as well as a myriad of complex symptoms and behaviors. Little research exists regarding effective treatment for children diagnosed with RAD, leaving both mental health professionals and caregivers want...

Mental Health and Mental Disorder

Mental Health and Mental Disorder. Edited by Arnold M. Rose. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 40s. The emergence of group methods in the treatment of mental illness in this country is still regarded with some suspicion by many workers in the mental health field. There is a tendency to consider the treatment of numbers of patients at the same time as a second best, though most people agree that the sho...