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- What Social Workers Need to Know When Working with Adoptive Families - By brave adoptive parent and advocate Pernell Meier Social workers have been an ever-present part of my family. Over the course…
- Parenting a challenging child? Here’s how to increase your resilience - Do you ever roll out of bed already over it? At your limit before the day starts? Knowing you can’t…
- The Boy Who Cried Abuse: When kids are abused in residential treatment facilities - Devon was a boy who cried wolf. On several occasions, he claimed workers had purposely hurt him. When he mumbled about…
- You need a safety plan - If you’re raising a child with RAD you almost certainly need a safety plan. Our children’s dangerous behaviors can include…
- Father’s Day for dads of children with RAD - Guest post by Terrie, RAD mom Today I remember all the dads – adoptive, foster, step and birth – for…
- The Essential Guide to RAD - Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD): The Essential Guide for Parents has the resources, advice, and information I wish I’d had when my…
- Why Residential Treatment is good (and not good) for kids with RAD - What’s your success been with Residential Treatment Facilities (RTF)? My son, Devon, has been in 2 group homes and 5…
- Dear friends & family - Dear Friend, I’ve told you before how I’m struggling with my child’s behavior but I’m not sure you understand how…
- Movie Review: The Boarder - When Annika and Zeb adopt Carl, an 11-year-old boy from the foster care system, they’re confident he’ll heal and thrive…
- Opening our foster care adoption - Published by Adoptive Families May 2018 Issue Sarrah laughed a little too loudly, running her fingers through her long, fluorescent…
- How parents of kids with RAD get PTSD - “It’s unreasonable to force a parent to bond with a child whose behaviors have led to his or her PTSD,”…
- Understanding Anger: Trauma and the Incredible Hulk - Effectively parenting children with a history of trauma requires a paradigm shift. This short video by psychologist Jacob Ham is…
- 15 Practical Self-Care Ideas for Parents - via Blog – Institute For Attachment and Child Development A self-care list for the exhausted, frazzled, frustrated parents without a…
- Open letter to a therapist from a mom of a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder - Dear Therapist, I am desperate for your help. I apologize ahead of time if I seem angry and defensive. I’m just…
- When a mom struggles to love and attach to her child with Reactive Attachment Disorder - Originally published by the Institute for Child Development. Carol was bitter and angry—on edge. Shortly after we met through a…