RAD; Children Stuck at Home
4 Steps to Success When your heart is pounding as you face the days with children “stuck at home" you know it is much more…
Category: Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
The Death Sentence
The Death Sentence Years ago in another life I was working as a police officer assigned to criminal investigations. During my tour of duty, I…
4 Most Important Medical Tests for Attachment and Behavioral Disorders
Written by Aimie Apigian, MD. Let’s play the “What If” game for a second… What if… there was an underlying biology problem in your child…
RAD: Twisted by Trauma
Written by Nancy Thomas Trauma hurts. It ripples through lives creating a tidal wave of health problems well documented in the “ACE” studies. Horrendous things…
RAD, Healing the Foundation
An old Bedouin metaphor says: Never let a camel get his nose in your tent. In the US we say: “Give them an inch and…
Great Dads of RAD
My friend Tim said, “This week with my daughter has been like living in a firestorm. She keeps creating sparks and embers for me to…
RAD, Is It Rare?
Written by Nancy Thomas My stomach turned! Once again a gentle loving family had been misguided and hurt for years by an adoption worker telling…
RAD, The Roots of Violence
The eyes are the windows to the soul. Yesterday I got a piercing hate look from a big, 15 year old boy that I am…
Parents’ Three Jobs written by Sarah Owens, LPC
One day, in a therapy session with a mom and a rather precocious 8 year old, we were discussing the 6 jobs of children. The…
RAD and Forgiveness
Three Steps to Get Them to Care. “I’m sorry” is so often a lie with children afflicted with RAD. They have little to no conscience…