Attachment Disorder

Attachment Disorder Links

• Bonding and Attachment in Maltreated Children Consequences of Emotional Neglect in Childhood. Developed by the ChildTrauma Academy, this booklet is devised to assist parents, caregivers, teachers and various professionals working with maltreated and traumatized children. By Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D.
  
• Martha G. Welch Center Information on one type of therapy used with children with attachment disorder.
  
  
• Attachment Issues Causes and symptoms of attachment disorder and information on how to help an attachment disordered child.
  
• Choosing to Use Confrontative Therapies with Attachment Disordered Children Informative information from Cathy Helding and Foster Cline.
  
• Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) In Families With Attachment Disordered Children PTS is often a part of a parent's life when they have a child with attachment disorder.
  
• Attachment Disorder Theory, Parenting and Therapy Information on the theory of attachment and how it relates to attachment disorder.
  
• Understanding Bonding Information on early attachment and bonding by Dr. Daniel Hughes.
  
• Fighting to be a Family One family's struggle with attachment disorder.
  
• Family Attachment Center of Minnesota Information, resources and links from an attachment disorder treatment center in Minnesota.
  
• Evergreen Psychotherapy Center Evergreen Psychotherapy Center's goal is to provide high quality treatment for the healing of attachment disordered children and their families. Useful information as well on this site.
  
• Attachment and Attachment Disorder Resources on attachment and parenting.
  
• The Attachment Center at Evergreen Provides quality treatment for children with attachment disorder, advocates for supportive, responsive communities, researches effective treatment methods, educates about causes, effects & prevention of attachment disorder, and nurtures and empowers families.
  
• Treatment of Attachment Disorder by Joanne May, Eden Prairie Treatment approach including EMDR.
  
• The PA Attachment Disorder Support Group A Pennsylvania based support group offering support. Information is also available to all who are dealing with attachment disorder.
  
• Taplink A Pennsylvania based support system.
  
• Nancy Thomas Parenting Offering hope and help for those working with or parenting emotionally disturbed children, with ADD, ADHD, RAD, ODD Bipolar disorder and Tourette Syndrome.
  
• Attachment Disorder Main focus is on attachment disorder. Supplies information and support for those dealing with attachment disorder and the many related issues that these children face.
  
• Donna Gould's Family Therapy Information on treating attachment disorder with the synchronous bonding technique.
  
• The Attachment Disorder Support Group (ADSG) Promoting the education and understanding of reactive attachment disorder and to providing support to those parents tasked with the journey of raising children with special needs.
  
• Full of Woe Addresses how unprepared parents are when confronted with their attachment disordered child's behaviors.
  
• ATTACH_of_Eastern_PA ATTACH of Eastern PA provides information regarding attachment disorder and is a local affiliate of the national organization ATTACH.
  
• Hudson Valley Family Attachments Counseling, support and advocacy services for adoptive, foster and kinship families, specializing in attachment disorders and PTSD.
  
• Wisconsin Attachment Resource Network A non-profit organization dedicated to the education of child attachment.
  
• Reactive Attachment Disorder Parenting Tips Links and tips for parenting children with attachment disorder (RAD), especially older adopted children.
  
• Tapestry Books Source of books to purchase about attachment disorder.
  
• Heal The Hearts Foundation Advocate group that provides the public with information, parents with support, resources, and scholarships for reactive attachment disorder therapy.
  
• Center For Family Development Attachment Center treating reactive attachment disorder. Two week intensives, attachment therapy, and evaluations for adopted and foster children
  
• Bonding and Attachment - When it Goes Awry Part 2 Gives parental strategies to enhance bonding.
  
• The Attachment Center West professional support and treatment for children with reactive attachment disorder (RAD), including psychotherapy for children and families
  
• The Enemy Within Offers much insight into attachment disorder with regard to school issues and attachment disorder in infants and toddlers.
  
• Trauma and Attachment Symptoms and causes of attachment disorder.
  
• Power Tools for Attachment This provides a general definition for attachment as it relates to parenting (specifically, adoptive parenting). It is useful for understanding the word "attachment" when looking at attachment disorders.
  
• Attachment Disorder:  Attachment and Bonding Center of PA The Attachment and Bonding Center of PA offers therapy services, support and information regarding Reactive Attachment Disorder.
  
• Dr. Federici - Home Page Dr. Ronald S. Federici. Developmental Neuropsychologist. Author of Help for the Hopeless Child.
  
• Correlation Between Reactive Attachment Disorder and Bipolar Disorder Rainbowkids.com presents this article by John F. Alston, M.D.
  
• Dan Hughes Dan is a trauma/attachment therapist who trains professionals and parents to work with these special children.
  
• Hope to Tell Informative links and a personal story of one family who has a little girl with attachment disorder.
  
• What Is Holding Time? Article by a child therapist describing Martha Welch's parenting method, Holding Time.
  
• Attachment as a Context for Development: Challenges and Issues Symptoms and causes of attachment disorder. Insights into the relationship between attachment and child development.
  
• Stony Brook: Attachment Research and Theory Attachment bibliographies, measures, and artifacts from the John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth attachment tradition.
  
• Kuddle Kids Information and techniques that help in the day to day parenting of children with attachment disorder. Includes techniques to facilitate attachment and bonding.
  
• Attachment Disorder Network An educational and advocacy organization dedicated to assisting families with troubled children.
  
• Reactive Attachment Disorder - It's Time To Understand A self-guided primer for the understanding and treatment of reactive attachment disorder, with speaker's notes.
  
• Attachment Disorder Home Page Information and support for families to cope with a child who is diagnosed with attachment disorder.
  
• Reactive Attachment Disorder Mailing List The Attachment Disorder Support Group list-serv exists for the purpose of communication and support between parents and caregivers of children with attachment disorder. The list is sponsored as a public service by Marymount University, Arlington, VA
  
• Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children ATTACh is an international coalition of parents and professional involved with children who have attachment difficulties. Promoting the identification of attachment issues, and effective interventions and treatments.
  
• Bonding and Attachment - When it Goes Right Part 1 Gives information on the stages of attachment and bonding chronologically through infancy.
  
• Institute for Children and Families Institute for Children and Famlies: areas of expertise are reactive attachment disorder, PTSD, ADHD, Adoption issues, Childhood Trauma, Sexual Abuse, Childhood Anxiety and Depression.
  
• Reactive Attachment Disorder: A Case Study Christina Fox was adopted from a Romanian Orphanage in Fagarash, Romania when she was 16 months old. She has a condition known as reactive attachment disorder.