Hi everyone,
I wanted to take a few minutes to share an email with you. I received the following email from an Attachment Therapist that I have been corresponding with via email. I deleted her name to keep her identity anonymous. The one thing that struck me about this particular email is that she brought to my attention the need to educate parents in the area of Neurofeedback. Since my son's Attachment Therapist uses Neurofeedback and EMDR as a part of the healing process with my son, I just assumed that most Attachment Therapists use this. Obviously I was mistaken. I also realized that throughout my website I mention "Holding" and "Attachment Therapy," but I really haven't done very much to educate parents about the amazing effects of Neurofeedback and EMDR in helping to heal RAD children. I did mention both of these treatments on "The King" page and I did provide a link on that page for parents to go to get more information on Neurofeedback, but I haven't really put much more on the site about this.
As you all know from reading this site, after fourteen months of hard work, my son and I had taken a break from Attachment Therapy for the summer. Well after my son's "friend" and neighbor of seven years recently moved away we started to see a regression in his behavior. My son was hurting, and angry, and taking that anger out on all of us. A week ago, I emailed my son's therapist to let him know that we were headed for trouble. He suggested that I bring my son in for a session of EMDR. I can honestly tell you that I sat there and watched my son relax before my very eyes, and my sons disposition has definitely improved these past few days. Parents... this stuff does work. Read on...
-Suzanne
Dear Suzanne
I'm in Chicago right now, taking an extremely intensive 5-day seminar on neurofeedback. It's very difficult and complex, but I've made some wonderful friends (experienced in neurofeedback) who will assist me as I enter this new adventure! Tomorrow, we will talk about how neurofeedback can help the RAD child and how to set up treatment with neurofeedback on them. I'm taking this first to help my ADHD son and my sensory disordered other son and second, to help my RAD kids. Suzanne, it's extremely exciting and from the small studies done on RAD kids, the results are incredible! There is a website, EEG Spectrum that has a very long, but very good article on RAD and Neurofeedback. I really encourage you to get the word out to the attachment community to research people who do this in their area and talk with them about how it works with the RAD child because it just could create some miracles! It works on the brain (painless) to encourage emotions, empathy and overall affect regulation---something we all do in therapy. "Medical community is stubborn to accept Neurofeedback because they feel there aren't enough studies done---Not true!" There is great research and studies done in this field to prove it does work.
Anonymous Attachment Therapist
