One of the interns at the attachment center is using our case as a case study.  We remain anonymous, but she presents the findings and then the class diagnoses the child.

Therapist C told me about the presentation today.  Apparently the class diagnosed Younger Boy with reactive attachment disorder and possible conduct disorder.  Their professor doesn't believe there is such a thing as reactive attachment disorder and that Younger Boy (and all children who have been traumatized) know exactly what they are doing and it is just oppositional defiant disorder causing the behaviors.  He went on to say that they could be strictly punished out of the behaviors.

I laughed and asked where I could drop Younger Boy off for this parenting so this professor could see that this is REAL.

Therapist C went on to tell me that there is a movement in the therapeutic profession to have reactive attachment disorder changed to trauma delayed as a diagnosis, because that is really what it is.

Prayers people will start to get it.