Product Description

Newly updated and expanded, this book is power packed with parenting techniques for guiding challenging children back on track! Part I includes understanding Reactive Attachment Disorder, it's causes and symptoms. Part II has the solutions! Praised by parents throughout the world as saving their sanity and their families. Used by many agencies and professionals to train parents to help emotionally disturbed youth. If you want to make a difference in the life of a hurting child this clear, focused plan will do it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13492 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 148 pages

Review
This version has even more ideas to help my child. I am a much better Mom because of this book! -- Helen B., Colorado parent, Jan 31, 2005

About the Author
Nancy Thomas, a Therapeutic Parenting Specialist, has shared her life and home for over 30 years with severely emotionally disturbed children. These children had ADD, ADHD, RAD, PTSD, Asperger's, Tourette Syndrome and Bipolar. Nancy specializes in bonding, conscience development and self-esteem building. 90% of the children placed in her care had killed. She has a very high success rate in working with these high risk children. She parents with power, love and pizzazz!

Nancy, an internationally known presenter, has trained thousands of parents and professionals in her powerful methods. These methods are helping children learn to be respectful, responsible and fun to be with in homes around the world. Her quest is to give each hurting child a chance at a happy life, each wounded parent hope.

Customer Reviews

awesome book
An absolute MUST READ for anyone parenting a RAD child or adopting older children. I wish I had read this book first!!!!

Sounds enticing...but I fear quackery
The ideas suggested in this book appear logical and make some intuitive sense to me, and I got excited while reading it. However, the author admits from page one that she is not a trained psychologist; nor is she a trained researcher. She does have expertise due to her years of parenting RAD children in her home, and apparently 90 percent of them have killed before. She claims a success rate with these children, though she doesn't say how highj. My problem is that without empirical data (she offers none) we cannot say for certain that her success (we don't know how she is measuring success, or even if success is truly achieved) is due to these methods she presents, or whether it is due to some other factor--perhaps she herself is merely a miracle worker, for some X reason.

I WANT to believe in the methods, because they sound good. They certainly don't sound harmful as she presents them. They jivewith my own beliefs and philosophies about parenting, though they are a bit harsh. However, because the author did not attempt to back up her statements with any theory or research, I am left with the task of backing them up for her...in other words, I have to keep reading.

It doesn't help the author's case that this book was recommended to me by a highly disturbed client of mine (I am a child protective services worker) to justify her emotionally abusive parenting methods, and that the book was recommended to HER by the least respected, most unethical, quack of a psychologist in our town. In the book's defense, my client wasn't really doing the suggestions properly.

This doesn't help either:
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Great resource
We was given this book shortly after we adopted our son. It has great information and is written so anyone can understand it, not all clinical jargon. I have reread the book several times at different stages of our sons development. This book is a great resource and I highly recommend it to anyone living with a RAD child.