Reactive Attachment Disorder

Reactive attachment disorder is a rare but serious condition in which an infant or young child doesn’t establish healthy attachments with parents or caregivers.

 

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Wiki Number: PW181
Diagnosis: Reactive Attachment Disorder
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Symptoms: Those unable to initiate or respond to social interactions; lack of self-regulation. Too few children have been studied to generalize.
Progression: Most of the Wikipedia article focused on whether the children met the definition of the disease, little on how to help them.
Causes: lack of neglect or abuse from 6 months to 3 years; failure to thrive;
Medications
Therapies: May need to remove the child from that home or orphanage; authorities disagree on appropriate therapies.

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4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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  • Presence and Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Reflective Functioning on Aggression in Adults With Antisocial Behaviour
    by Judith Luijkx on November 18, 2024

    This cross-sectional study investigated the relationship between the presence and impact of ACEs with both reactive and proactive aggression, and the possible moderating role of mentalization (operationalized as reflective functioning) in these expected relationships. Sixty-five inpatient and outpatient adults with any kind of antisocial behaviour completed the Dutch version of the Traumatic Experiences Checklist, the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire, and the Adult Attachment...

  • Validation of the Reactive Attachment Disorder and Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder Assessment (RADA): A DSM-5 Semistructured Interview
    by Maude Archambault on September 25, 2024

    Very few empirically validated tools exist for assessing reactive attachment disorder (RAD) and disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED). The RAD and DSED assessment interview (RADA), a semistructured diagnostic interview, was updated in 2018 from the CAPA-RAD interview to reflect the diagnostic criteria changes in the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5). The aim of this study was to validate the RADA on school-age children in Canada. Caregivers of 5 to...

  • Bipolar disorders and multiple etiologies : a link with attachment disorders ?
    by Jean-Benoît Désert on September 12, 2024

    Bipolar disorders (BD) bring together different forms of mood disorders, characterized by the occurrence of depressive, manic, hypomanic and/or mixed episodes. They are recognized as the seventh cause of disability per year of life among 15 to 44 year old people by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is therefore a frequently encountered pathology. On the etiological level, the avenues currently accepted concerning BD are multiple, yet they still remain at the hypothesis stage. Each of these...

  • Propylparaben exposure impairs G2/M and metaphase-anaphase transition during mouse oocyte maturation
    by Zhen-Nan Pan on July 31, 2024

    Propylparaben (PrPB) is a known endocrine disrupting chemicals that is widely applied as preservative in pharmaceuticals, food and cosmetics. PrPB has been detected in human urine samples and human serum and has been proven to cause functional decline in reproduction. However, the direct effects of PrPB on mammalian oocyte are still unknown. Here, we demonstrationed that exposure to PrPB disturbed mouse oocyte maturation in vitro, causing meiotic resumption arrest and first polar body extrusion...