Learn about Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), its causes, symptoms, and treatment. Understand how early care can impact a ...

Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is a rare condition of emotional dysfunction in which a baby or child has difficulty forming a bond with parents or caregivers due to early neglect or mistreatment.

Some have described it as living in a war zone. Other parents and relatives have said it’s terrifying and exhausting. Families are always on edge. They wait for outbursts of rage and even extreme ...

Our most developmentally important relationships begin in our formative years and come from our teachers, mentors, friends, and our parents or parental figures. How we connect with others is, in some ...

JUPITER, Fla. (CBS12) — In this special report, the CBS12 News I-Team is exploring a controversial mental health diagnosis. We decided to tackle the subject earlier this Spring, shortly after a story ...

A new study has suggested that lack of maternal attachment could be a cause behind depression in children. Erratic Maternal Care Induces Avoidant-Like Attachment Deficits in a Mouse Model of Early ...

Child Development, Vol. 87, No. 1, SPECIAL SECTION: Epigenetics, Child Behavior and Development: Unraveling the Gene-Environment Interaction (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016), pp. 326-340 (15 pages) This study ...

It can be difficult to study exactly how early relationships go on to influence attachment style, though, because people’s ...

Learning how this type of attachment style develops is truly healing and can help you understand a lot about your ...

Natalia Grace’s life story has been tragic thus far. Born with a rare form of dwarfism – spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita – in Ukraine in 2003, she was first given to an orphanage in the country ...