Returning to my discussion of the APSAC report, let me begin by responding to a question about where to obtain a copy of this report. It is available for purchase here.

A listing of the recommendations of the report can be found on the ATTACh website, here.

The end of the report discusses the disconnect between proponents and critics of attachment therapy. While critics are quick to respond to sensationalized cases of “attachment therapy gone... more

Today a reader asked if the folks who wrote the APSAC report had any suggestions on how parents and professionals should address attachment issues. There are some recommendations at the end of the report, which I should hopefully be getting to in one or two more installments. It was not my intent to provide so much of the report verbatim, but the content and wording are so, shall we say, interesting? to those of us parenting these kids… I hate to change the words. So here are a few more excerpts I think you should read…

Critics argue that most of these... more

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After discussing misapplications of the RAD diagnosis, the report addressed “The Attachment Therapy Controversy”.... more

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Continuing on with my commentary on the APSAC report, I will continue to share some of the highlights of the report verbatim. I am picking and choosing what I think will fit most of my readership, but I am not censoring or only... more

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Continuing on from the section of the APSAC report that postulates how foster and adoptive parents “dream up” their child’s pathology in order to avoid any responsibility for changing their parenting style, the report discusses attachment parenting. It differentiates attachment parenting a la Dr.... more

Continuing on my discussion of the APSAC report…

Although the report is quite lengthy, I will only share snippets of it. However, I think those of you parenting emotionally disturbed children will be especially interested in this section:

Proponents of controversial attachment therapies commonly assert that their therapies, and their therapies alone, are effective for children with attachment disorders and that more traditional treatments are either ineffective or harmful (see, e.g., Becker-Weidman, n.d.-b; Kirkland,... more

Awhile back, Pat Johnston mentioned the “big issue” unfolding with the organization ATTACh, and their recently released Position Statement and “White Paper”. Pat wanted to know what I thought about it all. After listening to all that occurred last week, I guess now is the time to start commenting. I will do my best to be a reporter of what I heard and saw last week, and interject as little as possible about my views, at least in the beginning.

To understand what... more