More Than RAD: Complex Trauma Disorder
We need more than RAD diagnosis. I am in the camp that hopes to see a consolidation of disorders under the umbrella of Complex Trauma Disorder. It’s Time That We Address More…
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John M. Simmons
Author. Adoptive father. Advocate for orphans.
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RAD Brains: Reactive Attachment Disorder
RAD brains have developed using the pattern that evolved for use in good environments while they live and grow in bad environments. RAD Brains: It Has to do With Your Brain, Not…
RAD Templates: Reactive Attachment Disorder
RAD templates gave my daughter a myriad of scenarios, to evaluate many negative possibilities, when other children learned only love and safety. RAD Templates: Inconsistent, Then Consistently Bad. When I was young,…
RAD Inventory: Reactive Attachment Disorder
Reactive Attachment Disorder is all about the brain. RAD Inventory is just the first of the three articles that build on each other. Taking Inventory with Reactive Attachment Disorder or… RAD Inventory…
RAD Paranoia: Reactive Attachment Disorder
RAD paranoia is nothing more or less than an increased sense of awareness. Paranoia is Merely and Increased Sense of Awareness “Paranoia is merely an increased sense of awareness.” At least that…
RAD Consequences: Reactive Attachment Disorder
Dear God! How do You expect us to survive these hardships, intact? What are You trying to do to us with RAD consequences?! My New Grandson’s Growth Will Not Come Easy, Any…
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