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| When Love Is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD
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Edition: Updated & Ex
Author: Nancy L. Thomas
Publisher: Families by Design
Release Date: 2005-01-31
ISBN-10: 0970352549
ISBN-13: 9780970352545
List Price: $18.00
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When Love is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD-Reactive Attachment Disorder brings hope and healing tools to parents and professionals working to help challenging children. Effective interventions, a full step by step plan, clearer insight and understanding make a powerful difference in helping children heal. If you want to make a difference in the life of a hurting child, this book will do it! This plan was honed on some of the most difficult children in the US and has been used successfully to help thousands of children around the world. Children can learn to be respectful, responsible and fun to be with. This book tells the reader how to do it and then zaps them with a boost of encouragement to get started!
Sounds enticing...but I fear quackery
| Customer Rating: | The ideas suggested in this book appear logical and make some intuitive sense to me, and I got excited while reading it. However, the author admits from page one that she is not a trained psychologist; nor is she a trained researcher. She does have expertise due to her years of parenting RAD children in her home, and apparently 90 percent of them have killed before. She claims a success rate with these children, though she doesn't say how highj. My problem is that without empirical data (she offers none) we cannot say for certain that her success (we don't know how she is measuring success, or even if success is truly achieved) is due to these methods she presents, or whether it is due to some other factor--perhaps she herself is merely a miracle worker, for some X reason.
I WANT to believe in the methods, because they sound good. They certainly don't sound harmful as she presents them. They jivewith my own beliefs and philosophies about parenting, though they are a bit harsh. However, because the author did not attempt to back up her statements with any theory or research, I am left with the task of backing them up for her...in other words, I have to keep reading.
It doesn't help the author's case that this book was recommended to me by a highly disturbed client of mine (I am a child protective services worker) to justify her emotionally abusive parenting methods, and that the book was recommended to HER by the least respected, most unethical, quack of a psychologist in our town. In the book's defense, my client wasn't really doing the suggestions properly.
This doesn't help either:
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Great resource
| Customer Rating: | | We was given this book shortly after we adopted our son. It has great information and is written so anyone can understand it, not all clinical jargon. I have reread the book several times at different stages of our sons development. This book is a great resource and I highly recommend it to anyone living with a RAD child. |
Good info -- Taken too Far
| Customer Rating: | When Love Is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD does offer some very great information and insight about parenting children with Reactive Attachment Disorder however as the Reviewer below me points out some of the advice seems a bit extreme to me.
I also believe that some approaches are not healthy for children with other significant issues and found that parenting a child with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) specifically Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder (ARND) is completely different and requires a far different approach then those offered by the leading experts (?) in Reactive Attachment Disorder.
Many of the tips and advice for parenting a RAD child do not take into account Short term Memory or Processing difficulties many children adopted from Foster Care may also have due to brain damage.
The approaches used for RAD children only caused Secondary Behavior Symptoms for my child who was diagnosed RAD and ARND. Once we were aware that our daughter has brain damage the tips and approaches offered by this outline no longer seemed needed. Once we recognized our childs disability and allowed ourselves to look for different approaches the majority of RAD symptoms went away and our whole family has changed as a result.
I believe that it is important to understand that attachment takes time and that it is not always the only thing parents need to be worried about. When we focus on the right things attachment will build more naturally.
Anna Glendenning
Adoptive Parents Network |
A FosterAdoption Necessity
| Customer Rating: | How I wish I had read this book to use 9 years ago with our two beautiful special needs adopted children. Very practical, useful, powerful tools to build attachment, navigate through the muddy waters of behavior crises, counselling, schools, and extended family. Useful for kids under 12, a bit light on legal advice that can become extremely critical as adolescent storms hit.
Encouraging, humorous,touching. It should be required at adoption prep classes for any child. |
Pleased
| Customer Rating: | | I found this book very helpful in understanding what is going on with our grandsons behavior. |
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