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10/1/2016 - 11/1/2016

Reactive Detachment Disorder and how to deliver services
 
Presented by: Amy Swigart, Community-Based Probation Officer - Butler County Juvenile Court Services

Attachment should be an inevitable part of life. However, for many individuals, this is not the case. Those individuals who suffer from Reactive Attachment live a confused, superficial life at best. Teenagers who experience attachment issues are often diagnosed (or misdiagnosed) with conduct disorders, Bipolar disorders, and even burgeoning personality disorders. It’s not so much that they do not fit the symptomatic presentation of these disorders; it’s that the lack of a RAD diagnosis prevents the adults working with them from fully understanding the depth of the problem or the correct methods of treatment. These youth often present as rage full, aggressive, and out of control.  They frequently have already begun to develop a lengthy juvenile court record and draining the court system financially.  They are likely cutting on themselves, hurting others, engaging in sexually elicit or abusive/violent relationships, fire setting, running away, and using alcohol and other drugs to mask their pain. The training will also include appropriate strategies for probation officers to provide probation supervision to meet the special needs of youth with RAD and protection of community.

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