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The organization I chose to do research on was the Institute for Attachment & Child Development. What is Attachment Disorder?  http://www.instituteforattachment.org/

One of this organization’s focus is on attachment disorders in children. The organizations states that “attachment disorder is the inability to form loving and lasting relationships, to give or receive love or affection, form a conscience, or trust others. Attachment difficulties are on a continuum of disturbance that range from attachment issues all the way to attachment disorder.
Attachment disorder falls under many names and categories.  In children, these names include: Reactive attachment disorder or RAD; Oppositional defiant disorder; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Childhood trauma, and Pervasive development delay or PDD” (Institute for Attachment & Child Development, 2014). The organization also gave some great examples of why some children do not form attachment within the first three years of their lives. The examples they provide were;

ü  Abuse
ü  Neglect
ü  Abandonment
ü  Multiple changes in caregivers
ü  Foster care
ü  Adoption
ü  Painful illness
ü  Exposure to alcohol/drugs in utero
ü  Maternal depression
ü  Inconsistent daycare
ü  Loss of a parent due to death or divorce
ü  Emotionally distant parents

In reading through these example I found them to be very interesting but it seem as though one example could be missing from this list. I truly thought culture background would have been in this group of examples through understanding that each individual culture may have their own specific ways of displaying what is consider acceptable attachment to children within their own culture. Whereas some others may view their ways as unacceptable and view these children as having a form of attachment from the list provided above if those evaluating young children having no background information or history on the cultures upbringing.