WHAT IS RAD?
RAD stands for Reactive Attachment Disorder.
We used to hear about Reactive Attachment Disorder from people who adopted kids from Eastern Europe, and it was pretty scary stuff. These kids do not develop relationships with other people...frienships, family, or anyone. They do not trust other people, have a tendency to defy authority, and can have little or NO conscience to seperate right actions from wrong ones.
It is widely believed that this dysfunction happens because the children have little or no nurturing when they are babies. Their brains do not develop the synapses that typical children form because they are missing some very essential pieces in childhod development. There is no mother to hold them, comfort them, or allow them to feel protected. They have no closeness with other human beings.
RAD kids see the world their way, and they intend to have things their way at any cost to anyone. They are, of course, and by their own account, always right, and rules do not apply to them. They accept no responsibility for the things they do, and will not be held accountable for anything. RAD is really one of the most difficult emotinal illnesses to counteract, because the child does not see that they are chiefly the cause of thier own troubles.
information if you are to treat this illness properly and effectively.
Here are two sites that have been especially helpful:
http://specialchildren.about.com/od/gettingadiagnosis/g/RAD.htm