Many parents who adopt children
with attachment challenges expect that showing consistent love to their child can undo the factors that lead to unhealthy attachments.
At The Attachment Place, we
teach attachment challenged children, teens, and young adults how to be productive family members in a home environment.
However, there are many schools and educators who are not familiar with the impact of trauma and
attachment challenges on learning.
Very simply, a child's primary attachment bond is what determines success in all future relationships — romantic, family, work, friendship, and so on — through childhood and adulthood, unless and until an adult with an insecure attachment quality is able to work with a professional therapist to
overcome attachment challenges and learn healthy relationship skills.
Sad children, young and old, affected by insensitive mothers and who may now struggle
with attachment challenges, low self - esteem, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection,... too many adverse effects to list here.
This separation allows parents to recreate a healthy home environment which will help facilitate healing for
their attachment challenged child and the entire family.
Hannah's Halo is a grant for families seeking the unique and informed post-placement support services needed by children with adoption and
attachment challenges.
However, they also realized that there was a price associated with the prolonged parent - child separation, including poor parent - child relationship,
attachment challenges, and socio - emotional and behavioral issues among the returning children [10].
So excited to read your article - as a therapist specializing in behaviour disorders and adoption, as well as being the adoptive parent of 12, I am constantly concerned with the focus on * therapeutic parenting * for children with
attachment challenges.
At the center of most therapeutic parenting strategies for parenting traumatized children and those with
attachment challenges is the concept of maintaining a highly structured AND highly nurturing environment.
Psychology Associates is a leading independent practice of over 100 clinical, counselling, neuropsychological, forensic and educational psychologists, who provide services across the life span and for a range of psychological challenges including learning difficulties, autistic spectrum conditions,
attachment challenges, mental health difficulties, trauma - related conditions, personality and behavioural issues.
We are a Treatment Foster Care (TFC) agency and are curious how this will impact children with higher needs and special needs being placed in TFC homes that are specifically trained to work with children with higher levels of trauma and
attachment challenges.