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RTC and Attachment disorders
Unfortunatley, usual RTC care is ineffective for children with RAD (good for kids with conduct disorders and oppositional defiant disorder, and juvenile delinquents...but not children with trauma-attachment disorders). That is the basis for your problems now. Your son is not doing well because he is not getting the right treatment. Most RTC's use a behavioral model with points, levels and such...that just does not work with these kids.
There are a few RTC's that use an attachment model for treatment and they go have generally very good results. They include the parents at the center of treatment. These programs provide attachment based residential care and attachment based therapy. The parents are in the driver's seat and that is vital for success.
One such program is Villa St. Maria in NM. Another in Intermountain in Montana, and a third that is developing such a program and has done a good job implementing attachment-based treatment in an RTC setting is Wyndham Lawn in Lockport NY.
Regards,
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Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman
Adoptive Parent
Specialist in Adoption and Foster care issues.
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