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Thank you so much for this site. My husband and I have adopted four children. One of our daughters was 2 1/2 when she came home, and is now 4 1/2. In the last couple of months, she has been displaying some pretty severe signs of reactive attachment disorder.

I work in residential treatment, and so I am somewhat aware of RAD and what this means for my child and family. I am, however, in the beginning stages of getting really educated and found out that, through the state we are in, we qualify for home therapy which will start next week, and we are very excited.

Anyway, I was looking around your site, and saw that there is an online course available. Course #2522 Attachment Disorders: Understanding & Behavior Management Strategies. Instructor: Dr. Catherine Swanson Cain. I was wondering if you could send me information on how to take this course.

Thank you for all that you do.

Maria Saines TRS/CTRS

Unfortunately, it appears that this course is no longer being offered through Universal Class. I will try to remember to make that change on my site the next time I update it.

That’s too bad, because it was an excellent course. Catherine Swanson Cain is the author of a book on the subject of reactive attachment disorder, by the way. The book is entitled, Attachment Disorders: Treatment Strategies for Traumatized Children.

You are fortunate to live in a state where help is available. This is not the case for far too many parents in this country.

Although I have replied to your email separately, if you come across it here, you will notice that I’ve changed your name. I will do so whenever I publish letters received by RadKid.Org.

– ken

Tags: adoption, reactive attachment disorder

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