Deborah D. Gray
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“As a group, attachment-challenged children need to be looked at differently. This is a group of children who have experiences and fears of being separated from parent figures. Until they can rebuild some of their emotional security, their time in child-care must be restricted.”
― Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
― Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
“Children who are permanently separated from their parents face a mourning process that is similar to children’s reactions to a parent’s death. In fact, the parents, with their connection and resources and care, are permanently lost to children. The literature that describes children’s reactions to a loss of the parent through death is quite relevant to the population of later-placed adopted children, or children in the foster care system who have lost attachment figures.”
― Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
― Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
“Parents wonder if dissociation feels negative, since children describe themselves as numb. In fact, the numb feeling of dissociation is among the most common symptoms for which sufferers seek medication. It causes people to feel awful within their own being. It leaves people expressing that they are robotic, without normal feelings for others. While children cannot express the feeling in adult abstracts, children whom I have treated want to be rid of the “nothing feeling.â€� They say that it feels “weirdâ€� or “not good.â€� They also notice that they are angry shortly after the “nothing feelingâ€� goes away.”
― Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
― Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
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