RAD Reflections

The hard reality of adoption and reactive attachment disorder is that it doesn't always work out the way the world would like.

The other day someone asked me if I had kids. I hesitated, unsure how to answer this otherwise simple question.

For better and worse, I am not who I was at the start of our reactive attachment disorder journey. Here's what I learned raising my child.

The most shocking part about the book but, he spit in my coffee is that it's true. In the reads-like-fiction memoir, author Keri Williams li

Why can't parents find help for kids with reactive attachment disorder? It comes down its definition and symptoms and higher education gaps.

The nurturing enemy is a devastating dynamic for everyone involved. It hurts the child with the disorder and everyone in the family.

Reactive attachment disorder is not easily treatable. Many parents grasp at straws to find what works. Maybe it's an alternative treatment?

Reactive attachment disorder isn't usually what it seems to the outside world. And the assumptions around it hurt kids and families.

Though the road to and through reactive attachment disorder was long and winding, Amy's perseverance led her family to safety.

Reactive attachment disorder is a developmental trauma disorder that wreaks havoc upon the families dealing with it. Violence,...

When our children with reactive attachment disorder (RAD) – a developmental trauma disorder – grow up, RAD doesn’t magically disappear.

At one point or another, most kids with reactive attachment disorder end up in residential treatment. Here's how to communicate with staff.

Navigating Reactive Attachment Disorder 2024 (NavRAD24) was full of tears, hope, laughter, connection and guidance.

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.

Many of our kids have post-traumatic stress disorder. We often develop it too from trauma reactive attachment disorder causes in our lives.

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...

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

Why do adoptions fail and how we can improve outcomes? Let's start by turning to the people who know best.

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.