Attachment Disorder Case Study

Beth was a little girl who experienced severe abuse that stopped when she was 19 months old, her little brother John who was about 7 months old experienced severe neglect as well by their father. Beth father was caught abusing them and they were finally taken out of the home and put into foster care. Beth and her brother had been bounced around from foster home to foster home until they were both adopted by Tim and Julie. Tim and Julie had no idea what Beth and John had been through prior to adopting them, but they had soon found out that Beth had been through a lot and it was extensively affecting her. Beth on numerous occasions had violent outbursts where she has attacked other people and her family. In the documentary, I watched Beth said that she wanted to kill her brother and her because she hates people and does not want to be around them because she was hurt so bad by her father. Beth’s mother died when she was one which she was then left with her abusive father. Beth would be so full of rage at times that she would break anything in her sight or hurt whoever was around her. Beth was not emotionally intelligent and did show any remorse for the bad things she has done. There would be

It has been suggested that Behavior Management Training is used as treatment (BMT) for RAD (Buckner, Lopez, Dunkel, & Joiner, 2008). RAD is a rare attachment disorder so there is not much research available on effective therapy. Existing treatments for RAD tend to be attachment based therapies (Buckner, Lopez, Dunkel, & Joiner, 2008). Also, a more publicized therapy for RAD is rebirthing or rage reduction therapy (Buckner, Lopez, Dunkel, & Joiner, 2008). When children are diagnosed with RAD, that cannot go untreated because it could get worse. It is a hard concept for people to digest that children are capable of murder, but it has been done before by a child with