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LOOKIT ME POST. Amazing. But also angry right now.
PSA: Support and advocacy website fighting back against Attachment Therapy
From the site: Attachment therapy (widely known as "holding therapy," "rage-reduction" or "dyadic developmental therapy") is a torturous and entirely unscientific practice that preys on orphaned adoptees, foster kids and children who already have a history of abuse.
Attachment therapy techniques rely on forceful physical coercion and restraint, non-consensual touching, verbal abuse, intimidation, enforced eye contact and punishments related to food, water and air intake. It is rejected by the mainstream psychiatric community as "harmful pseudoscience" and is officially banned by several states, but the practice continues to this day in the US and countries around the world.
Children have died as a result of this therapy. It has no grounding in research or academic theory, and actually contradicts attachment theory, upon which it claims to be founded. I looked at the videos and read the so-called theory behind the treatment -- it's BULLSHIT. Its aim is complete compliance of children. Any act of disobedience is characterized as a flaw in the child's personality and "attachment", and the therapy itself relies on violence, humiliation, and coercion, not safety, trust, and respect (which is what really attachment theory would recommend). This is a perversion of child-rearing.
I don't know about the prevalence of this therapy in Canada, but it is an issue in the US. It is even covered by insurance companies there. This woman, a survivor, is trying to get word out, after finding there were no support groups or general awareness of the harmfulness of this "therapeutic technique".
What you can do to help.
This shit makes me mad, guys. This goes against everything I've ever learned about effective child care and parenting, from parents, research, and personal experience. Worst of all, it targets adopted and fostered children, some of the most vulnerable kids out there.
Warning: child abuse triggers abound. There are links on these websites that lead to graphic (verbal and pictoral) depictions of child abuse.
PSA: Support and advocacy website fighting back against Attachment Therapy
From the site: Attachment therapy (widely known as "holding therapy," "rage-reduction" or "dyadic developmental therapy") is a torturous and entirely unscientific practice that preys on orphaned adoptees, foster kids and children who already have a history of abuse.
Attachment therapy techniques rely on forceful physical coercion and restraint, non-consensual touching, verbal abuse, intimidation, enforced eye contact and punishments related to food, water and air intake. It is rejected by the mainstream psychiatric community as "harmful pseudoscience" and is officially banned by several states, but the practice continues to this day in the US and countries around the world.
Children have died as a result of this therapy. It has no grounding in research or academic theory, and actually contradicts attachment theory, upon which it claims to be founded. I looked at the videos and read the so-called theory behind the treatment -- it's BULLSHIT. Its aim is complete compliance of children. Any act of disobedience is characterized as a flaw in the child's personality and "attachment", and the therapy itself relies on violence, humiliation, and coercion, not safety, trust, and respect (which is what really attachment theory would recommend). This is a perversion of child-rearing.
I don't know about the prevalence of this therapy in Canada, but it is an issue in the US. It is even covered by insurance companies there. This woman, a survivor, is trying to get word out, after finding there were no support groups or general awareness of the harmfulness of this "therapeutic technique".
What you can do to help.
This shit makes me mad, guys. This goes against everything I've ever learned about effective child care and parenting, from parents, research, and personal experience. Worst of all, it targets adopted and fostered children, some of the most vulnerable kids out there.
Warning: child abuse triggers abound. There are links on these websites that lead to graphic (verbal and pictoral) depictions of child abuse.