Attachment therapy

Keeping Children Involved in Family Therapy Children who live in healthy environments know and expect that their basic needs will be met. For example, a child knows that a parent will give him or her food when hungry. Even a baby learns that crying will result in the end of discomfort from a wet diaper. Their world and those in it serve to meet their needs and frequently their wants. What children learn and know about the people in their lives is contingent upon their caregivers and the…

Attachment disorder is a disorder where the child has the conflict of not being able to show any sort of affection to their parent at times this can be difficult because this can cause problems throughout the person's life. This disorder can happen to children that have parents as well as foster children. The disorder is caused by the feeling of insecurity with their parents or caused by the death of their parents. It can also be caused by the abandonment of a child that was forced into a foster…

Davenport, a Navy psychiatrist. Athwone is furious about this development. His reluctance about his current situation strains the relationship between the two men. Athwone is so unwilling to cooperate with Dr. Davenport that he resigns to spending therapy sessions in complete silence. He simply sits on Dr. Davenport’s sofa and refuses to talk to his psychiatrist. However, as the futility of his own situation finally becomes apparent to Athwone, he opens up to Dr. Davenport. After all, Athwone…

Children Psychology is a topic in psychology that studies how children perform certain behaviors. It examines how a certain behavior that a child performs can influence a certain behavior as the child grows and becomes an adult. Also, there are many different factors that a child experiences growing up that can influence these adult behaviors. Many experiments have been performed to prove these different variables as true. These may be variables such as money, social, culture, age, location, and…

Have you ever felt down when an infant declines you or when he/she does not want to make eye contact with you? Well there is a reason for why the child acts differently. As many of us know, many infants have different type of attachment style. By different attachment style, I mean how one infant will be playful with a stranger alone or with its caregiver and stranger together and the other infant will not be playful. He/she will not try to make eye contact with the stranger or if the caregiver…

1. This observations takes place in the gym of LifeSteps between a Garrett and the Occupational Therapist (OT). Garrett is a 13-year-old boy who has been diagnosed with ADHD and anger problems. The OT and Garrett were sitting on the swing talking about how Garrett’s day at school was. He began by saying that he did not have a good day because of another kid named Chris. Garrett said that Chris was very annoying and that he didn’t like Chris at all. Garrett also stated that no one in the class…

Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is a very complicated and misunderstood disorder. Even Though it is considered uncommon it is a completely serious disorder. It occurs when a child has suffered from abuse and neglect. Although a child may be loved and cared for after neglect, Reactive Attachment Disorder affects a child’s mental and emotional health, because of the lack of love, the child finds it hard to emotionally connect with another, and they can develop disruptive or aggressive behavior.…

theories such as Narrative Therapy is that they promote an optimistic view of clients. As a result of adhering to this favorable and hopeful perspective, clients can be encouraged to hope that things do get better and that they have the solutions to their problems. Nonetheless, Emotional Focused Therapy (EFT) is the exception to my post-modern views. I find that these two theories are somewhat contradicting but also similar. In practice, I prefer integrating EFT and Narrative Therapy when…

Reactive Attachment Disorder: What, Why and How to Deal with It. One of the complications involving bonding among children (especially adoptive children) today involves reactive attachment disorder (RAD). Reactive attachment disorder has no straightforward cure and stems from a variety of factors that greatly impact the child in several negative ways. Unfortunately, many parents who have youngsters with this type of complex disorder do not fully understand what this disorder entails or how to…

field of occupational therapy serves to aid people in regaining their independence. As an occupational therapist, your goal is to provide your patients with proper physical rehabilitation to engage in meaningful work, or occupations. The American Occupational Therapy Association defines this allied health field as, a career which assists people throughout the lifespan engage in the activities they want and believe are necessary by utilizing everyday activities as a means for therapy (“What is”).…