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;
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Therapies: May need to remove the child from that home or orphanage; authorities disagree on appropriate therapies.
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- Effects of intranasal oxytocin on neural reward processing in children and adolescents with reactive attachment disorder: A randomized controlled trialby Shinichiro Takiguchi on January 22, 2025
Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is associated with socially and emotionally withdrawn/inhibited behaviors and reduced neural responses to rewards. Children and adolescents with RAD show aberrant attachment behaviors, and existing psychotherapies are difficult to maintain; therefore, pharmacological interventions to aid and boost treatment responses are needed. Oxytocin (OT) administration is known to promote reward functioning. We investigated whether single-use intranasal OT administration...
- Originalarbeiten / Original Articles. Diagnostik und Behandlung bindungsbezogener Aspekte bei Jugendlichen mit Persönlichkeitsstörungen / Assessment and Treatment of Attachment-Related Aspects in Adolescents with Personality Disordersby Manuela Gander on December 3, 2024
Assessment and Treatment of Attachment-Related Aspects in Adolescents with Personality Disorders In recent years the relevance of attachment-related aspects in psychotherapy research has increased. This approach offers an opportunity to test the effectiveness of specific psychotherapeutic procedures for personality disorders in adulthood. Although there are a number of novel psychotherapeutic interventions for personality disorders that were adapted for adolescents, there is still a lack of...
- Presence and Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Reflective Functioning on Aggression in Adults With Antisocial Behaviourby 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 Interviewby 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...