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[quote=Anonymous]Without a fuller description of your issues and whether your child was an infant or older child adoption, domestic or intl.--is hard to give recommendation.  We have been through several therapists in terms of dealing with our older adoptee's attachment and behavioral issues and here is what I have learned:

1.  Run away from traditional child therapists who do play-based child therapy consisting of just them and the child---without you.  While that type of therapy may work well with kids who are going through a single traumatic event (parental divorce, death or illness of loved one), it does nothing with respect to attachment.

2.  Therapists who are focused on attachment need to be attuned to any underlying neurodevelopmental  issues that may be affecting the child's ability to identify and process emotions.  If your child had any potential prenatal exposures that could adversely affect brain development, then you may need to identify and try to treat those first with a psychiatrist in order to get the child to a point where they can benefit from therapy.  [/quote]

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