what is reactive detachment disorder?

Answer 1

http://www.radkid.org/what_is_it.html

Answer 2

Reactive Attachment Disorder (sometimes called "RAD") (DSM-IV 313.89) is a psychophysiologic condition (1) with markedly disturbed and developmentally inappropriate social relatedness in most contexts that begins before five years of age and is associated with grossly pathological care. This pathological caregiving behaviour may consist of any form of neglect, abuse, mistreatment or abandonment.

The DSM-IV specifically includes two forms of clinical presentation:

* "Inhibited" (Criterion A1), and
* "disinhibited" (Criterion A2)

There are various "attachment styles" that are not pathological, and attachment issues that may be found anywhere within the continuum. "Reactive Attachment Disorder" has been traditionally used to describe a "severe disturbance in the attachment between caregiver and child that is of long standing and applicable/observable in all contexts in which the child interacts."

Some of the attachment styles are named: "avoidant", "aggressive", "ambivalent" and "disorganised/mixed". There is often a blending of several attachment styles in an individual.

There is a high comborbidity between Reactive Attachment Disorder and Bipolar I Disorder with about 50% of children in the Child Welfare System who have Reactive Attachment Disorder also have Bipolar I Disorder.