Common Interventions To Help Parents Manage Children With Attachment Disorders

This section will help provide parents and caregivers with training programs that will help them manage attachment disorders within children

Psychotherapy and Psychoeducation:

One of the most common intervention that parents can use when handling a child with an attachment disorder is psychotherapy, which teaches parents how to learn what a healthy relationship looks like, and how to create a healthy relationship with healthy boundaries with their children.

Next is Play Therapy:

Play is considered to be extremely beneficial for a child's development, as it helps to further develop a child's problem solving skills, cognitive skills, and their memory ability. Play has been proven to help children that have experienced some form of stressful, and/or traumatic events in their lives.

Children who have experienced some form of trauma will store those memories in their nonverbal area of their brain - the hippocampus - and through physical, symbolic, and role-playing activities, it will help move these events to the child's frontal lobes - the area of the brain that help a person communicate, and process behaviours and life events. 

"The therapist may also incorporate the use of tools and techniques such as clay, therapeutic storytelling, music, dance and movement, drama/role-play, and creating visualization." (GoodTherapy, 2015)