Best 7 Reactive Attachment Disorder Books

1. Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)

By Keri Williams

The book offers practical suggestions to help you:

• Understand developmental trauma and Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
• Learn tips and tricks to help you to navigate “the system”
• Get resource recommendations that will provide a way forward

2. but, he spit in my coffee

By Keri Williams

A reads-like-fiction memoir about adopting a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)

Based on a shocking true story, this reads-like-fiction memoir exposes the dysfunctions of the child welfare and mental health systems and how they fail kids with RAD and their families.

The gripping and heart wrenching true story of a desperate mother who must grapple with impossible choices as her young son becomes too dangerous to live at home but is only growing bigger, stronger, and more violent while in treatment.

3. Detached: Surviving Reactive Attachment Disorder

By Jessie Hogsett

DETACHED! SURVIVING REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER is the true story of a young boy who never “attached” or “bonded” with his alcoholic mother. He felt unloved, uncared for, unsafe, sad, lonely and extremely angry. As he grew up, he, like most Reactive Attachment Disordered kids, acted out, exhibiting severely antisocial, even violent, behavior. You’ll travel back in time to view a young child’s life through his own eyes. You’ll see an innocent boy become a severely emotionally disturbed teen. Then, against all odds, you’ll read about miracles few ever thought possible.

4. Inside: Understanding How Reactive Attachment Disorder Thinks and Feels

By Timothy L Sanford MA

This book gives helpful insight into the world of R.A.D. that will enable, therapists, families and friends, as well as those diagnosed, to better understand this “jungle” like world. INSIDE is written for professionals in the field of mental health with an Afterword that provides specific treatment information that professionals may use in their practices. This resource can also be a valuable resource for others seeking information on this disorder.

5. When Love Is Not Enough

By Nancy Thomas

When Love is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD-Reactive Attachment Disorder brings hope and healing tools to parents and professionals working to help challenging children. Effective interventions, a full step by step plan, clearer insight and understanding make a powerful difference in helping children heal.

6. Parenting Toolbox

By Dr. Lisa Phifer, Laura Sibbald, Jennifer Roden

125 Activities Therapists Use to Reduce Meltdowns, Increase Positive Behaviors & Manage Emotions

The Parenting Toolbox is filled with easy-to-use strategies, backed by science, to overcome challenges and strengthen parent-child interaction – one worksheet, activity and exercise at a time.

7. The Connected Parent

By Karyn Purvis PhD, Lisa Qualls

Renowned child-development expert Dr. Karyn Purvis gives you practical advice and powerful tools you can use to encourage secure attachment in your family. You will benefit from Karyn’s decades of clinical research and real-world experience. Coauthor Lisa Qualls demonstrates how you can successfully implement these strategies in your home, just as she did in hers.

You will learn how to simplify your approach using scripts, nurture your child, combat chronic fear, teach respect, and develop other valuable tools to facilitate a healing connection with your child.
The Connected Parent will help you lovingly guide your children and bring renewed hope and restoration to your family.