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Hi Lucy, it's my understanding that rebirthing therapy was the main offering at the Evergreen clinic; they made their money off the premise of RAD children and those who adopted with expectations of how grateful a newly adopted child "should" be. It wasn't an unusual therapy practiced by one therapist, or why would three have been holding down poor Candace as she cried out for her life and her amom watched from a window? I, too, enjoyed reading "High Risk: Children Without a Conscience" (also written by more than one practitioner at the clinic, not supporting your statement that this treatment was practiced by some lone wolf clinician at the clinic) but find that as a group these children are adopted and then blamed for not "adjusting" the way apars want them to be, or fast enough. My belief is that these children are suffering from TRAUMA, not RAD, and when symptoms appear the apars charge the child with genetic defectiveness. I cannot think of anything sadder for a child than to have unrecognized life trauma and then be blamed for it. In fact, I cannot think of it long; it is so unfair to a child and life-damaging, life-threatening, and in some cases, life-ending. It makes me ill to consider what the poor child goes through.
Sara
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