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Symptoms, Causes and Research

Symptoms

•Intense control battles, very bossy and argumentative; defiance and anger
•Resists affection on parental terms
•Lack of eye contact, especially with parents - will look into your eyes when lying
•Manipulative - superficially charming and engaging
•Indiscriminately affectionate with strangers
•Poor peer relationships
•Steals
•Lies about the obvious
•Lack of conscience - shows no remorse
•Destructive to property, self and/or others
•Lack of impulse control
•Hypervigilant/Hyperactive
•Learning lags/delays
•Speech and language problems
•Incessant chatter and/or questions
•Inappropriately demanding and/or clingy
•Food issues - hordes, gorges, refuses to eat, eats strange things,  hides food
•Fascinated with fire, blood, gore, weapons, evil
•Very concerned about tiny hurts but brushes off big hurts
•Parents appear hostile and angry
•The child was neglected and/or physically abused in the first three  years of life

Terry Levy and Mike Orlans answer the question
What is Attachment Disorder?

Symptom Checklist 
from Evergreen Consultants

Excellent article at Tulsa Today
Enemy Within

A well-respected center in Colorado that treats RAD
The Institute for Attachment & Child Development

An article from Nancy Thomas' site
Taming the Tiger

Potential Causes

•Neglect
•Abuse
•Separation from the primary caregiver
•Changes in the primary caregiver
•Frequent moves and/or placements
•Traumatic experiences
•Maternal depression 
•Maternal addiction - drugs or alcohol
•Undiagnosed, painful illness such as colic, ear infections, etc.
•Lack of attunement between mother and child
•Young or inexperienced mother with poor parenting skills

What is Attachment?

What is Attachment
By Kathleen G. Moss, LCSW, ACSW

Learn about the work of John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth and others
Attachment Research Center

Foundations
by Deborah Hage

Research and Diagnosis

DSMIV
Diagnostic criteria for 313.89
Reactive Attachment Disorder
of Infancy or Early Childhood
Behavenet Clinical Capsule

Center for Family Development

Robin Myeroff, PhD
Does Attachment Therapy Work?
The Institute for Attachment and Child Development

Preliminary Results of Attachment Disorder Subtypes
Discusses Anxious, Avoidant, Ambivalent, Mixed Subtypes
The Institute for Attachment and Child Development

Randolph Attachment Disorder Questionnaire Information
The Institute for Attachment and Child Development

Professionals - purchase the RADQ from the
Institute for Attachment and Child Development

Preliminary Outcome Data 
 Family Attachment and Counseling Center of Minnesota

 

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