Attachment disorder
What is attachment disorder?
Attachment disorder is a mental and emotional condition brought on as a result of failure to form an appropriate bond with primary carers in early childhood. Children with attachment disorder have trouble trusting others. This disorder affects a person's mood, behaviour and social relationships usually because of early experiences of neglect or abuse.
A young person's attachment-related behaviours may be different with one familiar adult than with another, which suggests that the disorder is more connected to a relationship or interaction than it is to an aspect of the sufferer's personality.
Symptoms of attachment disorder
It is difficult to compile a list of the symptoms associated with attachment disorder because of their varying nature and the way in which it affects different people and different relationships. In general terms, these children have been hurt too deeply to trust others. Often children with attachment disorders display a distinct lack of age-appropriate social behaviours with adults.
How Priory Education Services can help
Priory Education Services operates a network of schools and colleges throughout the country. It is the UK's leading specialist provider of education and care for children and young people aged four to 35 with a wide range of complex learning difficulties and disabilities. These include Asperger's Syndrome, autistic spectrum disorders, behavioural, emotional and social difficulties and specific learning difficulties, such as dyslexia and dyscalculia.
Almost all students admitted have a Statement of Special Educational Needs and will have experienced difficulties within mainstream and local authority special schools. Many will have been excluded from school or had problems at home because of their complex and challenging needs and behaviours.
Please click here for further information on the specific special educational needs our schools and colleges can address.
Please click here for a list of schools and colleges that specialise in attachment disorders.
Contact us to find out if we can help. Telephone 0845 2 774679 or email education@priorygroup.com Lines are open from 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and between 10am and 8pm at the weekends.
For further help
Young Minds Parent Information Service
www.youngminds.org.uk
0800 018 2138