tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743746633913926150.post1076794561715914859..comments2024-03-12T07:00:44.143-04:00Comments on CHILDMYTHS: Gotta Pass the Physical: Child Psychotherapy as a Contact SportJean Mercerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14619393019771381980noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743746633913926150.post-32011690474510515442012-06-03T07:02:56.572-04:002012-06-03T07:02:56.572-04:00Thanks, I will!Thanks, I will!Jean Mercerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14619393019771381980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743746633913926150.post-13557052984335371452012-06-03T03:09:53.506-04:002012-06-03T03:09:53.506-04:00Having read this I thought it was very enlightenin...Having read this I thought it was very enlightening. I appreciate you finding <br />the time and effort to put this content together. I once again find <br />myself personally spending a significant amount of time both reading and <br />posting comments. But so what, it was still worthwhile!<br /><i>Feel free to surf my page</i> - <b><a href="http://www.school-for-all.com/occupational-therapist-salary" rel="nofollow">Occupational Therapist Salary</a></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743746633913926150.post-7263073974861672462011-07-13T19:48:42.886-04:002011-07-13T19:48:42.886-04:00I don't know how inspired I am, but here's...I don't know how inspired I am, but here's how I would define them:<br /><br />"Attachment parenting" is a style advocated by William Sears and his friends and relations. It's intended for typically-developing babies and their families. It assumes that a good deal of effort is needed in order to cause emotional attachment to form, and suggests care methods like constant carrying and skin-to-skin contact, as well as favoring co-sleeping and "family bed" arrangements. These methods are certainly harmless unless they cause marital or other social conflict, but they are not necessary for the development of secure attachments, nor will they overcome serious problems like autism. There is no systematic evidence about the effect (if any) of this parenting style, and my guess is that it's chosen because it's fashionable more than for any other reason.<br /><br />"Therapeutic parenting" is a method of treatment for children who are thought to have emotional disorders. It's a form of milieu therapy in which the child is exposed to interventional techniques most of the time rather than just at the therapist's office. To the best of my knowledge, therapeutic parenting is most often associated with treatments that are supposed to address attachment-related disorders (although I see that ATTACh is now claiming that they are dealing with the notional Developmental Trauma Disorder proposed by Bessell van der Kolk, so there may be a change in how this is discussed). Therapeutic parenting may be carried out by a child's own (usually adoptive) parents or by "respite parents" or foster parents who specialize in this work. Nancy Thomas, the best-known proponent of therapeutic parenting, claims that this intervention must stress the absolute authority of the adults, including their power over information such as when the child will go home. Limiting or withholding food and toilet access, and requiring tedious, meaningless work for no reason except to show authority, are aspects of therapeutic parenting. These methods have never been systematically investigated, and it is far from clear which techniques have emerged from misunderstandings of attachment theory and which are simply old-fashioned methods of discipline akin to sending to bed without supper or washing out the mouth with soap.<br /><br />"Attachment therapy" is an unconventional method of treatment for children who are thought to have disturbed forms of attachment to caregivers (although, as above, we may begin to hear that "DTD" is the problem). Certainly in the past, and to some extent still in the present, attachment therapy included and stressed holding therapy, a method of physical restraint of children that was accompanied by shouting, intimidation, and demands for statements that were thought to create catharsis of negative feelings ("I hate my mother!"). Since the death of the 10-year-old Candace Newmaker at the hands of attachment therapists in 2000, ATTACh (the main organization advocating attachment therapy) has claimed that attachment therapy now involves physical cuddling that is not restraining and that is agreed to by the child. There has been no systematic investigation or even description of attachment therapy in recent years, but a study of holding therapy over ten years ago provided only very weak evidence for its effectiveness. <br /><br />So, to sum up, attachment parenting has nothing to do with the other two, but attachment therapy and therapeutic parenting are closely associated. All of them are argued to derive from John Bowlby's attachment theory, but none of them actually does so except in the most minimal way.Jean Mercerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14619393019771381980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743746633913926150.post-42373081683425401382011-07-13T17:13:04.522-04:002011-07-13T17:13:04.522-04:00The info out there on so-called RAD is very confus...The info out there on so-called RAD is very confusing and subjective…thank you for attempting to clear some of it up.<br /><br />I was wondering if you might one day be inspired to clear up some confusion about the differences between “attachment parenting”, “therapeutic parenting” and “attachment therapy”, while you are on the subject of “RAD”?Sunday Koffron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00859347065249826781noreply@blogger.com