RAD Reflections

Many people, including clinicians, do not understand that the whole family needs help for reactive attachment disorder. Here is one story.

The lies that kids with RAD tell can be so obvious and illogical that parents begin to question their own reality, says Lien.

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.

Just like parents can't love away cancer, they can't erase reactive attachment disorder with a "good home". Yet, that is the expectation.

Reactive attachment disorder notoriously strains relationships due to its confusing nature. This RAD mom struggled with her own mom.

Join us for NavRAD22 in Georgia this October for a unique conference created just for those raising kids with reactive attachment disorder.

How did my dream of helping kids in foster care end with my husband and I being arrested? Here's our story.

Children with reactive attachment disorder have special needs. But others don't see it. So parents are left alone to create their "village".

In two-parent homes, where one parent stays at home and is the more primary caregiver, the other parent often sees a very different picture.

Sometimes a child experiences such severe impacts of early trauma that they can’t accept the love of a family.

Raising a child with developmental trauma is traumatizing, further compacted by the loss of friends and family.

Healthy kids often become a byproduct of their sibling’s reactive attachment disorder; they also become traumatized.

Attachment issues are far different from reactive attachment disorder. That's why RAD Advocates and the Navigating RAD experience began.

While helpful resources are still bleak with regard to reactive attachment disorder parenting, it's come a long way. Here's what we found.

A mom of a child with reactive attachment disorder doesn't need flowers or cards this Mother's Day. She needs your support.