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Reactive Attachment Disorder Support

Kerry — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:17:03 -0600

Below is a chart of RAD Resources for Adults/Parents with children with reactive attachment disorder.

But what about adults who have been abandoned and abused by their parents? What sort of networking resources are there for adults with attachment and trust-issues? This section is dedicated to the adult who has difficulty trusting others because he/she was neglected, abused or abandoned during childhood.

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Oppn 'horrified' at Indigenous foster care breakdown

Kerry — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:15:29 -0600

Australia

A report reveals Aboriginal children in state care are being shunted between guardians. (ABC TV)

Child placement

Coercive Restraint Therapies: A Dangerous Alternative Mental Health Intervention

Niels — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:34:18 -0600

from: pubmedcentral.nih.gov

Posted 08/09/2005
Jean Mercer, PhD

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The Power of 2

Kerry — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:19:34 -0600

By Kali Wendorf, December, 2005

When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one...then you will enter [the kingdom of heaven].
Jesus, according to The Gospel of Thomas

Intimate relationships

Do we have multiple personalities?

Kerry — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:51:26 -0600

In ‘Multiplicity,’ author argues that we are all made up of many characters

TODAY

updated 12:12 p.m. ET, Mon., April. 14, 2008

Message in a bottle

How adopting an angelic five-year-old blew our family apart

Kerry — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:44:58 -0600

By MELANIE ALLEN

When Melanie Allen and her husband Rob, a quantity surveyor, adopted a five-year-old called Alex, they couldn't believe their good fortune. Heartbreakingly beautiful, as well as affectionate, she seemed to be a dream child. But as the months passed, Melanie and Rob, both now 44, began to see a very different side of their 'perfect' daughter - and found themselves sucked into a nightmare in which they faced losing everything ...

Jumping out of the car, I could just make out the small, lone figure waiting at the front door.

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APSAC Task Force report on Attachment Therapy

Niels — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:56:20 -0600

Although the term attachment disorder is ambiguous, attachment therapies are increasingly used with children who are maltreated, particularly those in foster care or adoptive homes. Some children described as having attachment disorders show extreme disturbances. The needs of these children and their caretakers are real. How to meet their needs is less clear. A number of attachment-based treatment and parenting approaches purport to help children described as attachment disordered.

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Animal Hoarding: The Crazy Cat-Lady Explained

Kerry — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:56:24 -0600

An expert illuminates the interesting psychology behind this odd behavior

TODAY
updated 10:15 a.m. ET, Fri., March. 14, 2008

Shocking but true: Earlier this week, 800 small dogs were seized from a filthy triple-wide trailer in Tucson, Ariz., where the elderly residents were overwhelmed trying to care for the animals. Also this week, Kentucky police found 117 starving and diseased dogs during a raid of a local animal shelter.

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(You'll have to pay to get more)

Kerry — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:18:30 -0600

In-home treatment of reactive attachment disorder in a therapeutic foster care system: a case example. (Practice).
Publication Date: 01-JAN-03
Publication Title: Journal of Mental Health Counseling
Format: Online - approximately 5422 words
Author: Sheperis, Carl J. ; Renfro-Michel, Edina L. ; Doggett, R. Anthony

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The Consequences of Child Placement

Kerry — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:01:26 -0700

"Attention Deficit". It can mean many things to many people. In my house, with four kids, it means not every child is getting the attention he/she may want from both parents all the time. Such is the consequence of being out-numbered. Hub-man and I do our best to attend to the needs of each child, but we are human. We will fail, and we will be judged. My hope is my kids will be kind when they look back on their childhood and remember all that was done for and with them, and not focus on what was not done.

Parenting

The Consequences of Fatherlessness

Kerry — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:45:57 -0700

http://www.fathers.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=391

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Do you know about your Omega-3?

Kerry — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:45:47 -0700

Overview

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Animal brains 'hard-wired' to recognize predator's foot movements, Queen's study suggests

Kerry — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:58:41 -0700

from: www.bio-medicine.org

The reason people can approach animals in the wild more easily from a car than by foot may be due to an innate "life detector" tuned to the visual movements of an approaching predator's feet, says Queen's University psychologist Niko Troje.

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A breed of pill-popping mal-contents

Kerry — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:31:52 -0700

ADHD update: New data on the risks of medication
From Harvard Health Publications
Harvard

Medications — chiefly the stimulants dextroamphetamine and methylphenidate — are the only proven treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with its symptoms of distractibility, impulsiveness, and hyperactivity. But the benefits of stimulants last only as long as patients continue to take them, and worries about the risks of long-term use are again in the news.

Child placement

Thankfulness v. Entitlement

Kerry — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:16:36 -0700

Joyce Brothers: People have different views of thankfulness

By DR. JOYCE BROTHERS

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/brothers/337759_joyce1122.html

Intimate relationships

Handling a holiday breakup

Kerry — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:33:44 -0700

By Margot Carmichael Lester

http://msn.match.com/msn/article.aspx?articleid=8933&TrackingID=516165&BannerID=541888&menuid=6&GT1=10582

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Do-gooders can become the worst cheats

Kerry — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:16:16 -0700

Study: Sense of moral superiority might lead to rationalizing bad behavior

By Jeanna Bryner
updated 3:07 p.m. ET,Thurs., Nov. 15, 2007

Morally upstanding people are the do-gooders of society, right? Actually, a new study finds that a sense of moral superiority can lead to unethical acts, such as cheating. In fact, some of the best do-gooders can become the worst cheats.

Stop us if this sounds familiar.

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Brain Matures Late in Kids With ADHD

Niels — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:40:48 -0700

Brain Scans Show Children With the Condition Lag Three Years Behind Peers

By NIDHI THAREJA, M.D.
ABC News Medical Unit
Nov. 12, 2007

Kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder lag three years behind their peers when it comes to brain development, a new study suggests.

The study is the first to quantify the differences in brain development between children with ADHD and their non-ADHD counterparts.

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15 Famous Quotes About War

Kerry — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:34:45 -0700

Homework

http://encarta.msn.com

War evokes such conflicting emotions--horror, glory, shame, pride, and sorrow--that it is often difficult to express them in words. Here is what some have said about war.

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The myth that madness heightens creative genius.

Kerry — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:32:11 -0700

from: PsychologyToday.com

There may be a link between creativity and mental disorders, but it is probably not in the way that you think. There is a widespread highly romanticized belief that madness somehow heightens creative genius among artists, writers, and musicians. And that may be because we romanticize the idea of artistic inspiration.

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Special Beauty Report: Erasing Ethnicity

Kerry — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:09:35 -0600

Around the world, the desire for pert features, pin-straight hair, and a willowy physique — those dubious emblems of American beauty and success — is driving a multibillion-dollar industry.

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Astronomers See Second Earth in the Making

Kerry — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:38:20 -0600

By Ker Than
Staff Writer
posted: 03 October 2007
09:38 am ET

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/071003-second-earth.html

Astronomers have spotted evidence of a second Earth being built around a distant star 424 light-years away.

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Ten mysteries of the mind

Kerry — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:33:57 -0600

from: LiveScience

Ten mysteries of the mind

Much of what we don't understand about being human is simply in our heads. The brain is a befuddling organ, as are the very questions of life and death, consciousness, sleep, and much more. Here's a heads-up on what's known and what's not understood about your noggin.

-- Jeanna Bryner

Sweet dreams

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3 legal papers you shouldn't live without

Kerry — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:25:02 -0600

You may not need a trust, an elaborate estate plan or even a will. But unless you want a stranger making important decisions for you and your family, there are some things you do need.

By Liz Pulliam Weston

articles.moneycentral.msn.com