How often do the adoptive parents who “poured their lives into their children,” as the mother writes, find themselves in a situation when, in the moment of high emotions or simply “right out of the blue,” their children turn against them, distance themselves, accuse them of perceived wrongdoing, cruelty, and other impossible things? Not so rarely, unfortunately. In this dialogue with such family in trouble, the authors of the book If I Love My Kid Enough: The Reality of Raising an Adopted Child Sara-Jane Hardman and Jean Roe Mauro talk about how it happens with those who were abandoned young and how long any path to healing is.
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Sara-Jane Hardman and Jean Mauro LCSW
Why We Need to Attach
4/18/2008
An explanation of the importance of attachment in an individual's life and how to maximize it in a child's development.
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Arthur Becker-Weidman, Ph.D.
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy: An evidence-based and effective treatment for trauma and disorders of attachment
9/14/2008
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy is an evidence-based and effective treatment for trauma and attachment disorders. This article describes the treatment and it's evidence base.
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Nicholas Rogu M.D.
Reactive Attachment Disorder in the Internationally adopted child
2/23/2006
I have heard that many internationally adopted children are at risk for Reactive Attachment Disorder. What is this disorder and what are some of the signs that parents should look for?
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Arthur Becker-Weidman, Ph.D.
Notes on Attachment
12/5/2005
This article describes how attachment develops and difficulties that children can expeience when all does not go as it should.
