Reactive Attachment Disorder in the General Population: A Hidden ESSENCE Disorder

Reactive Attachment Disorder in the General Population: A Hidden ESSENCE Disorder

Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is a severe disorder of social functioning. Previous research has shown that children with RAD may have poor cognitive and language abilities; however, findings mainly come from biased, institutionalised samples. This paper describes the characteristics of all children who were given a suspected or likely diagnosis of reactive attachment disorder in an epidemi...

Reactive Disorder Reactive Attachment Disorder: A Review

Prevalence of reactive attachment disorder in a deprived population.

BACKGROUND Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is associated with early childhood maltreatment and has unknown population prevalence beyond infancy. AIMS To estimate RAD prevalence in a deprived population of children. METHOD All 1646 children aged 6-8 years old in a deprived sector of an urban UK centre were screened for RAD symptoms. Parents of high and low scorers were interviewed using s...

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 ...