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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Disorders/Mental Illness
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…
RAD Expectations: Reactive Attachment Disorder
To me, RAD expectations are taking a child from a place where they did not have a chance, to one where they do. RAD Expectations can be Monuments of Achievement, Rather Than…
RAD Dirty: Reactive Attachment Disorder
Though Grandpa never heard of Reactive Attachment Disorder, he would have understood RAD dirty and he’d have told me; “You’re doin awright.” You Can’t Drag Someone Out of the Mud Without Getting…
RAD Mini Cycles: Reactive Attachment Disorder
In cases where Reactive Attachment Disorder is involved, a situation change that involves authority always brings on RAD mini cycles. I’ll Swap You a Thousand RAD Mini Cycles for One Broken Mini-Bike.…
RAD Makes Me Sad: Reactive Attachment Disorder
Reactive Attachment Disorder makes me a lot of things. But on weeks like last week, RAD makes me sad. I Often Use Anger to Protect My Feelings. That Doesn’t Mean I’m Not…
RAD Implementation: Reactive Attachment Disorder
There is no plug-and-play therapy for RAD implementation that will “fix” our child. Give Me A Break! I’ve Tried That a Million Times! You, the readers of my blog are so kind.…
RAD Resolution: Reactive Attachment Disorder
We discussed what needed to be different this time, if the results from this RAD resolution might be different from RAD resolutions in the past. It’s Not Just Resolving. It’s "Resolution" This…