An Analysis of Reactive Attachment Disorder in Adopted Children
Dr. Harris
April 13, 2014
An Analysis of Reactive Attachment Disorder in Adopted Children
Abstract
Many children are going into foster and adoptive homes in this generation, it makes it necessary to ask the question: are there affective treatments and diagnosis for foster/adopt children with reactive attachment disorder and does going into foster care mean that a child will end up with reactive attachment disorder? Children’s attachments can be negative or they can be positive depending on the emotional and physical availability of the parental figure. If the children know that their needs will be met, and receive the attention they need they will have a normal or positive attachment. If they do not get the emotional support or feel that their parents were not emotionally available, they can have negative attachment or reactive attachment, which would give them the inability to know how to seek support from their parents (Velotti, DiFolco, & Zavattini, 2013). There have been studies to determine whether or not reactive attachment disorder is a viable diagnosis and there are tools for diagnosis already that work effectively to diagnosis reactive attachment disorder (Wimmer, Vonk, & Bordnick, 2009). Professionals in the field of psychology and social work need to commit to evaluation of the present tools for diagnosis and treatment and look for ways of recognizing attachment issues before the extreme.
An Analysis of Reactive Attachment Disorder in Adopted Children
This review is necessary to answer the question of whether the current forms of diagnosis and treatment are all that are necessary or is there more that can be learned with a larger scale study that encompasses more of the children in foster homes today. More children are going into foster homes than in the past and it is necessary to see that they come in to adulthood healthier and happier than in...