Reactive Attachment Disorder - Diagnosis
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Self-protective organization in children with conversion and somatoform disorders.

17 May 2009 OBJECTIVE: Two centuries of clinical observations have suggested that conversion symptoms are associated with strong emotions or situations that threaten the individual's physical or psychological integrity. This study tested the hypothesis that ... Read more...

A novel examination of atypical major depressive disorder based on attachment theory.

3 May 2009 OBJECTIVE: While a large body of descriptive work has thoroughly investigated the clinical correlates of atypical depression, little is known about its fundamental origins. This study examined atypical depression from an attachment theory framework. ... Read more...

An exploratory study of the association between reactive attachment disorder and attachment narratives in early school-age children.

30 Mar 2009 OBJECTIVE: To explore attachment narratives in children diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder (RAD). METHOD: We compared attachment narratives, as measured by the Manchester Child Attachment Story Task, in a group of 33 children with a ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Reactive Attachment Disorder - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Self-protective organization in children with conversion and somatoform disorders. 17 May 2009
• A novel examination of atypical major depressive disorder based on attachment theory. 3 May 2009
• An exploratory study of the association between reactive attachment disorder and attachment narratives in early school-age children. 30 Mar 2009
• A contemporary child-case discussion. 30 Jan 2009
• Boys only! No mothers allowed. 30 Jan 2009
• Triadic reality, same sex parents and child analysis: a response to Ann Smolen's 'Boys only! No mothers allowed'. 30 Jan 2009
• Comments on 'Boys only! No mothers allowed'. 30 Jan 2009
• Integration through relatedness in the conversational model: a case study. 30 Jan 2009
• Contagious depression: negative attachment cognitions as a moderator of the temporal association between parental depression and child depression. 30 Dec 2008
• Individual, demographic, and family correlates of romantic attachments in a group of American young adults. 29 Nov 2008
• Postraumatic stress disorder and reactive attachment disorder: outcome in an adolescent. 29 Nov 2008
• Developmental psychopathological perspectives on sexually compulsive behavior. 29 Nov 2008
• Treatment of sexually compulsive adolescents. 29 Nov 2008
• [Psychosocial consequences of sexual abuse] 29 Nov 2008
• [ADHD and attachment processes: are they related?] 18 Sep 2008
• Identification of child maltreatment using prospective and self-report methodologies: a comparison of maltreatment incidence and relation to later psychopathology. 29 Jun 2008
• A threshold approach to understanding the origins of attachment disorganization. 29 Jun 2008
• The Child Attachment Interview: a psychometric study of reliability and discriminant validity. 29 Jun 2008
• Attachment narratives and behavioral and emotional symptoms in an ethnically diverse, at-risk sample. 30 May 2008
• Predictors of problematic sexual behavior among children with complex maltreatment histories. 29 Apr 2008

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Technical information about 'Reactive Attachment Disorder'

Definition: Markedly disturbed and developmentally inappropriate social relatedness that begins before age 5 and is associated with grossly pathological child care. The child may persistently fail to initiate and respond to social interactions in a developmentally appropriate way (inhibited type) or there may be a pattern of diffuse attachments with nondiscriminate sociability (disinhibited type). (From DSM-IV, 1994)

Descriptor UI: D019962

Alternative terms: Reactive Attachment Disorder; Attachment Disorder, Reactive; Attachment Disorders, Reactive; Disorder, Reactive Attachment; Disorders, Reactive Attachment; Reactive Attachment Disorders;

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Tree Number: F03.550.750;

History Note: 98