Healing Attachment Disorder in Teens
What It's Like To Have an Attachment Disorder Imagine yourself working on a 1000 piece [...]
Developing A Healthy Attachment
When parents are told their child might have attachment disorder, they don't really understand what [...]
Residential Treatment for Attachment Disorder
One thing that has stood out to me working with teenagers in Residential Treatment is that humans [...]
Adoption, Trauma and Attachment Disorder in Teens
Adoption is a beautiful and redemptive event, but it’s one that does involve loss. For the child, the loss is not remembered but it’s also not forgotten; it can operate as an invisible force and, therefore, has to be brought to consciousness so that it can be dealt with. Often there is loss on both sides—the parents inability to have children and the child’s loss of her biological family. For the teen, we work to help her realize that she is continuing to behave as if she is going to be abandoned at any moment. We try to help her understand the very real (but until then mysterious) source of her fears, and then to distinguish between real and imagined threats of abandonment.
Reactive Attachment Disorder Treatment for Teens
Attachment disorder can be profoundly painful for parents because it impacts their ability to have reciprocal closeness and connection with their child.