Great information! This kind of information should be a requirement for future adopted parents to study in a class setting before even considering being a candidate for adopting a child. This Is the kind of information we wished we where aware of before adopting our kids. It's been a nightmare because we are now dealing with our RAD teens. It's very taxing emotionally, financially, physically, and socially! Be careful about going into adoption because it will turn your life upside down!!!!

I have fetal alcohol syndrome and reactive attachment disorder too and very sever post tramatic stress

great information /resource thank you. Always hard to find RAD /FASD training's....

Hello, I’m a clinician treating a previously RAD diagnosed 17-year-old client. She is living in a short term residential treatment program with a goal to reunify with her paternal mother. Question.. is the kit activity appropriate at her age? If not, which techniques are appropriate for a child at this age? This presentation was amazingly insightful:) I learned a great deal!

The thing with this is that you talk about children and teenagers with RAD. I have RAD and grew up when no one was looking for this, so behavioural issues meant I was just a bad kid. Once you are living outside of "the village" to use your description, then life is hard. RAD never goes away, you have it forever. Over a lifetime RAD is super destructive up against a normal society.

Fabulous resource

I feel like my niece has this disorder, her mother ( my sister) abandoned her on to my 65 years old mother and I’ve ask mom to put her in counseling to get my niece some help but she won’t do it and I don’t understand why? My niece is seven years old and my sister never developed a bond with her child or her other three adult children. My mother has had my niece sense she was four months old and my sister comes in and out of her life. Sometimes it seems like my niece is getting better but most of the time it seems like her behavioral issues are getting worse and I am at a point to where I don’t want her around my little girl for safety reasons. She fights with all my mothers grandchildren in the family and so most of them don’t come around as often anymore because they don’t know how interact or even play with her. My niece is really smart so she doesn’t have learning disabilities but she does have adhd and my sister did do drugs while pregnant with her but I don’t know is did alcohol too. My 21 year old daughter has adhd she can control it better now but it was hell for a lot of years but the kind of issues my niece has are so alarming. My niece hurts animals, I thought she was over the hurting animals but a couple months ago I caught her holding my cat down and beating him in his head with her fist, he is old so he just cry’s and doesn’t even bite her and he is terrified of her. She killed my daughters hamster this past summer, she squeezed him to death on purpose. I told her the hamster was dead and she laughed. I asked her why she killed the hamster and she said because she didn’t have a pet but I had a cat and my daughter had the hamster as a pet. She was jealous because her grandmother wouldn’t let her have a pet. She has her own pug dog and she doesn’t hurt it but I still catch her hurting my cat. She is very jealous of my little girl over my little girls paternal grandmother, grandfather, siblings and her father. She fights with my mom as soon as my little girl goes out the door with her father and grandparents. If my daughter comes in with a toy she brought from her grandparents house my niece waits for my daughter to put the toy then grabs it goes and hides and brakes the toy to pieces. She hides food she has a bunch of hiding places around the house my moms counselor says my niece is eating her feelings and may have also went without food when she was in my sisters care. She also molested my daughters brother when my daughters grandmother did let her go to her house. My sister has let both her girls get molested by her boyfriends. Anyway I am planning on getting us a apartment and letting mom have this house we’re renting together because my niece is just to much of a risk to my child. I feel so bad for my niece her problems are all due to my sister not taking responsibility of her child.

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He uses the example of animals on the Prairie or tundra, saying they must attach immediately. But then goes on to say human attachment is from 6 to 18 months. Why? He must be talking to adopting parents. Because it is now known that attachment for children is immediate. He talked about babies in the nursery two days old recognizing their miles. Absolutely contradicts himself.