Attachment Disorder courtesy www.eeginfo.com
One of the
most challenging conditions encountered in the clinical world is Reactive
Attachment Disorder (RAD), in which the child has not had a chance to bond with
a mother figure in early infancy. The behavioral consequences of early
childhood abuse are most challenging, and the consequences of neglect may even be worse. These problems do not yield readily to psychotherapeutic interventions.
They do, however, yield to more physiologically-based remedies such as
Neurofeedback and those techniques that aim to calm the mind through the body
(somatically-based remedies).
Attachment Disorder may also eventuate if the child's nervous system is not
capable of responding to the bonding experience, and this is a key feature of
the autism spectrum. A commonality among all of these conditions is that the
physiological response needs to be altered in these children. Their primary
response to the world is through fear, a thorough-going sense of not being
safe. This is not a problem to be solved through talk therapy. The fear
response grips the entire body-mind, and it is the body-mind that must be
re-educated. This can readily be done with Neurofeedback, and it can be done at
any age.
Quick results should be obtained that convince the therapist of the efficacy of
the training. However, Neurofeedback may well be required for an extended
period of time and over many sessions (>100) before the person exhausts the
benefits of the training.
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