The Aftermath of Reactive Attachment Disorder: What To Do When Your Kid Grows Up
When our children with reactive attachment disorder (RAD) – a developmental trauma disorder – grow up, RAD doesn’t magically disappear.
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Alyssa Carter
- Oct 28
- 6 min
How to Chat with Staff When Your Child with RAD is in Residential Treatment: 5 Tips for Parents
At one point or another, most kids with reactive attachment disorder end up in residential treatment. Here's how to communicate with staff.
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Nichole Noonan
- Oct 18
- 7 min
An Overview of the Navigating Reactive Attachment Disorder Experience for Those Who Couldn't Make It
Navigating Reactive Attachment Disorder 2022 (NavRAD22) was full of tears, hope, laughter, connection and guidance.
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Nichole Noonan
- Sep 23
- 5 min
Reactive Attachment Disorder: How a Family Got to the Other Side From Despair to Hope
The Baxters had never heard of reactive attachment disorder. They certainly didn't have training for what to do about it. But they made it.
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Micaela Myers
- Aug 29
- 5 min
Reactive Attachment Disorder Parenting: How Your Brain is Traumatized Too
Many of our kids have post-traumatic stress disorder. We often develop it too from trauma reactive attachment disorder causes in our lives.
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Micaela Myers
- Aug 16
- 6 min
5 Painful Yet Often Critical Pathways for Parents of Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder
Parenting isn’t an easy gig, no matter who the parent or child is. But when a child has reactive attachment disorder (RAD) – the result...
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Anonymous
- Aug 9
- 6 min
The Process of a Heart Breaking, by a Sister of a Brother with Reactive Attachment Disorder
Many people, including clinicians, do not understand that the whole family needs help for reactive attachment disorder. Here is one story.
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Micaela Myers
- Jul 6
- 6 min
The Real Reasons Adoptions Fail from the Perspective of a Parent of a Failed Adoption
Why do adoptions fail and how we can improve outcomes? Let's start by turning to the people who know best.
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Micaela Myers
- Jun 23
- 5 min
How Lying and Stealing from a Child with Reactive Attachment Disorder is Different from Another Kid
The lies that kids with RAD tell can be so obvious and illogical that parents begin to question their own reality, says Lien.
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Micaela Myers
- May 17
- 5 min
3 Things This Mom Wishes She Knew Years Ago While Raising a Child with Reactive Attachment Disorder
Being the mother of a child with reactive attachment disorder was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Here's what I wish I knew at the start.
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Nichole Noonan
- Apr 14
- 4 min
The Stories About Childhood Trauma You Might Not Know (and what you can do to change the narrative)
Maybe you've never heard the true stories of what can happen after childhood trauma. It's time to educate and change the narrative.
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Micaela Myers
- Apr 4
- 11 min
What Reactive Attachment Disorder Looks Like Across the Spectrum in Real Families
Reactive attachment disorder differs for each child and family depending on its severity. And so should treatment.
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Micaela Myers
- Mar 14
- 6 min
Reactive Attachment Disorder Treatment: The Paths That Do and Don't Work for (and from) Families
There's no straight-forward reactive attachment disorder treatment to heal the wounds of early trauma. Learn from other families' trials.
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Nichole Noonan
- Feb 23
- 6 min
Reactive Attachment Disorder: The World Might Be a Better Place If We Supported These Parents
Just like parents can't love away cancer, they can't erase the impacts of early trauma with a "good home". Yet, that is the expectation.
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Micaela Myers
- Feb 14
- 5 min
Reactive Attachment Disorder: All the Things a Grandma Might Not See That Her Daughter Does
Reactive attachment disorder notoriously strains relationships due to its confusing nature. This RAD mom struggled with her own mom.
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Nichole Noonan
- Jan 25
- 1 min
Reactive Attachment Disorder Support: Where Families Can Learn & Lean On Each Other in 2022
Join us for NavRAD22 in Georgia this October for a unique conference created just for those raising kids with reactive attachment disorder.
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Micaela Myers
- Jan 19
- 6 min
Reactive Attachment Disorder: Success May Lie in the Eye of the Beholder
RAD is complicated and difficult to treat—especially the more severe cases. Success is not cut and dried, and it’s not one size-fits-all.
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Nichole Noonan
- Jan 12
- 4 min
How a Stranger's Early Childhood Experiences Can Impact Your Life (and what you can do about it)
Most people don't realize how one person's childhood trauma can impact everyone around them.
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Nichole Noonan
- Dec 17, 2021
- 2 min
Lead Passion to Progress. We Can All Be Reactive Attachment Disorder Advocates.
When we work together, we can create a paradigm shift surrounding reactive attachment disorder. Become a RAD advocate, wherever you are.
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Anonymous
- Dec 15, 2021
- 8 min
3 Lessons I Learned the Hard Way After Getting Arrested While Raising a Child with RAD
How did my dream of helping kids in foster care end with my husband and I being arrested? Here's our story.
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