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Hughes proposes that an attachment based treatment may be more effective for such foster and adoptive children than traditional treatment and parenting interventions. [4] It is stated that once an infant's safety needs are met (by attachment) they become more able to focus on learning and responding to the social and emotional needs of caregivers.
There is a conscious effort to build on recent, although limited, research into the incidence and causes of reactive attachment disorder and risk factors for RAD and other psychopathologies. Soon after coming into care the children are intensively assessed, in foster care, and then receive multi modal treatments. [35]
Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is described in clinical literature as a severe disorder that can affect children, although these issues do occasionally persist into adulthood. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] RAD is characterized by markedly disturbed and developmentally inappropriate ways of relating socially in most contexts.
Foster Cline gave evidence for both parents claiming Lucas had reactive attachment disorder and that living with such a child was like living "in a situation with the same psychic pressures as those experienced in a concentration camp or cult" and that the parents were in no way responsible for the genesis of Lucas' alleged difficult behaviors.
Medication can be used to treat similar conditions, like depression, anxiety, or hyperactivity, but there is no quick fix for reactive attachment disorder. A pediatrician may recommend a treatment plan, such as a mix of family therapy, individual psychological counseling, play therapy, special education services and parenting skills classes. [51]
IPSRT draws upon principles from interpersonal psychotherapy, an evidence-based treatment for depression [4] and emphasizes the importance of daily routine (rhythm). [ 5 ] IPSRT was developed by Ellen Frank , PhD at the University of Pittsburgh who published a book on her theories: Treating Bipolar Disorder, a Clinician's Guide to Interpersonal ...
Ego-dystonic sexual orientation is a highly controversial mental health diagnosis that was included in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) from 1980 to 1987 (under the name ego-dystonic homosexuality) and in the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) from 1990 to 2019.
No pharmacological treatments have been established as a cure for ME/CFS, but various drugs are used to manage the symptoms of ME/CFS. [39] In subsets of patients, various viruses and bacteria have been reported as the causative agents of ME/CFS, although consistent and compelling supportive evidence is still lacking. A number of antiviral and ...