Attachment Disorder - A Parent's Account of Raising a Child with RAD

by Claire Heritage

Raising a child with attachment disorder requires dealing with mental health professionals on all levels. But the parents must also deal with school officials, law enforcement, family, friends, church members, and neighbors. It's an overwhelming job filled with one crisis after another. Raising a child with RAD takes every resource and every ounce of strength and hope residing in the parent. It is like riding a roller coaster in the dark. Even when things are level and slowly moving along, you know another crisis is just ahead to take your breath away.
I've learned to believe in my child's healing despite negative imput from others. I will share with you what I have learned along the way, my mistakes as well as the things I did right. A child can recover from attachment disorder and live a normal life, but it takes proper treatment and room to heal.

Genres: Parenting

229 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 3, 2011

Reviews

[Mrs Karen Gale · Rating 4 out of 5]

First hand knowledge

I chose this rating,because it was interesting to read the first hand experience of an adoptive mother. As a professional working with many children who are presenting with RAD, increasingly following the Pandemic. Discharging insight into this difficult and sometimes dangerous area. People still don't understand how their
ier behaviour effects and impacts going people pre-birth. Believe me if does. Stress of abuse is huge in pregnancy. Imagine developing in all that toxic chemical imbalances for nine months. It would be like wading in poison. Breathing in fumes, and total darkness.
The only problem was for me the book needs to be edited again it didn't always make sense, but otherwise. An excellent read!

[Andrea · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was indeed a book about parenting a child with RAD but it was also a book about how one woman enabled and prolonged the process of getting a diagnosis. I'm sure that if she would have been a bit more patient with each of the facilities she interacted with and respected their rules even if she didn't agree with them, a diagnosis would have been more quickly found. RAD is nearly impossible and at the end of the book she makes statements indicating that under no circumstances should a parent give up on their child. these comments made a bitter taste because instead of understanding and compassion for going through similar circumstances, I felt that because we let our rad go and feel like we failed her and have so much guilt, in the author's eyes we did the wrong thing. not that it matters. She doesn't know me or us or our situation but of all the people to understand coming to the end of a rope, I thought she would be one to offer support for the best for the family and child.