What is a reactive connection failure?
Reactive connection disorder (RAD) is a form of connection disorder that is manifested in young children, usually five years ago. Children with this condition did not create a safe attachment to their primary carers and as a result they do not know well socially. Children with reactive attachments can participate in various antisocial behavior and have trouble connecting to other children. If this psychological condition is not treated, it may persist into adulthood and can create suffering because the person is trying to navigate in society. Children who have been abused or neglected have this problem normally, as well as children who have been institutionalized or deprived of stable home life. Lack of healthy attachments to people such as parents, grandparents, etc., leads children to develop maladaptive social behavior.
An indivisibred form of reactive connection disorder, the child lacks conventional social inhibition. Children can approach complete foreigners, be very honest and aboutTreated with people who do not know well and show other forms of indiscriminate sociality. On the other hand, children with inhibited inhibited are withdrawn, prefer their own society and avoid social situations.
Some signs that a child may have a disorder of reactive connection, include general lack of interest in the outside world, towing from carers, not eating well and acting unusually compared to children of the same age. For diagnosis it is necessary to perform complete psychological evaluation, while the child and carers are evaluated. It is important to confirm that a child has a disorder of reactive connection before treatment.
In some cases, the evaluators may feel that the best interests of the child to be placed in another house, such as when children are victims of abuse and neglect. In other cases, therapists work with a child and carers to help create a healthy connection. Solo and Group TeRapie is used along with exercises and many other techniques. Each therapist has a slightly different approach and sometimes requires several attempts and mistakes to find the right approach to the family.
People should be aware that some dangerous therapies such as wrapping children have been designed for reactive connection disorders. During treatment, it is important to cooperate with certified and licensed professional for psychotherapy and before engaging in alternative therapies to make sure that the child will not physically or psychologically damage.