Christian Counseling Ministries, Inc.
Reactive Attachement Disorder Intensive Therapy (RAD)
Family Attachment MN

RAD Causes

What causes Reactive Attachment Disorder?

Reactive Attachment Disorder is developed in children, for a myriad of reasons, such as:
    -Neglect
    -Physical, sexual or emotional abuse
    -Painful or undiagnosed illness or injury
    -Sudden separation for primary caregiver
    -Prenatal abuse including alcohol and/or drug abuse, and poor nutrition
    -Frequent foster placements and failed adoptions
    -Pathological or inadequate childcare
    -Physical or psychological abandonment by mother
    -Premature birth

Symptoms of RAD
Children who have Reactive Attachment Disorder may display these symptoms:

-Superficially engaging and “charming”
-Lack of eye contact on parental terms
-Indiscriminately affectionate with strangers
-Not affectionate on parent’s terms (not cuddly)
-Destructive to self, others and material things (accident prone)
-Cruel to animals
-Stealing
-Lying about the obvious (crazy lying)
-Learning lags
-Abnormal eating patterns
-Poor peer relationships
-Preoccupation with fire and/or death
-Persistent nonsense questions and incessant chatter
-Inappropriate demanding and clingy
-Abnormal speech patterns
-Sexual acting out

About the RAD Program

                          There is hope and help!
       The Reactive Attachment Therapy Program at CCM

We offer:

A NON-AGGRESSIVE/BONGING THERAPY PROGRAM
This therapy includes narrative therapy (story telling by parents), nurturing, holding and other therapeutic methods.

DURATION OF THERAPY
The therapy is intensive.  Parents and child will meet with 2 counselors, 2 hours daily for 2 weeks (10 days).

Follow-up therapy is recommended for the child with the support counselor for a minimum of 3-6 months.

RAD Comments

Scriptural support for Attachment Therapy

“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, instead bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.”  Ephesians 6:4

Remember, these children were provoked to anger in the past, and now our goal is to diminish the anger, and train and instruct them in new core values.

“There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.  The one who fears has not been made perfect in love.”  John 4:18

Fear is the basic emotion which fuels the rage in children suffering from Reactive Attachment Disorder.   Your love as parents, will overcome the fear that was unfairly placed in this child’s heart.  This program will train you to use your love to reattach to the heart of your child.

“Do not be conformed to the patterns of this world but be transformed by the renewing of the mind.”  Romans 12:2

The goal of the attachment work is to change the negative messages that the child has received, and replace them with hope, trust, and love.

“For I know the plants that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare not for calamity; to give you a future and a hope.”  Jeremiah 29:11

This is a promise to both parent and child that God’s plans are for a future of hope, joy and love.

RAD Therapy Fees

THE FEE FOR THE 2 WEEK INTENSIVE IS $4,500.00 (PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING & FOLLOW-UP THERAPY IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS PRICE)
Colossians 1:28-29
We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone complete in Christ.  To this end I labor, struggling with all His energy, which so powerfully works in me.
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