Does Your Child Have an Attachment Disorder?
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An attachment disorder is a condition in which people have problems with mood, behavior, and social relationships. These disorders can cause children to have difficulty forming loving, lasting, intimate relationships with others. These attachment disorders can caused by a failure to form normal attachments to primary care giver figures in early childhood. They can also be caused by separation from caregivers, abuse, neglect, or poor parenting. Children with attachment disorders may have many emotional and behavioral problems. For example, a child with an attachment disorder will not make eye contact, lie excessively, not be able to form relationships with peers, be cruel to animals or to other children, steal, have learning disorders, have poor impulse control, and a few other issues. If a child develops an attachment disorder at a young age, it is possible for a child to grow out of an attachment if the problem is caught early by reviewing the signs above and having the child diagnosed. A parent can help their child by soothing and rocking them often, being consistent with schedules, modeling appropriate social behavior, and spending a lot of time with the child. If however, the disorder is not caught and taken care of while the child is young enough, this child could grow up with the disorder and have many behavioral and emotional problems for the rest of their life that may only be able to be cured with extensive therapy.