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5 Ways the Church Can Foster Healthy Attachment in Adoptive Families

5 Ways the Church Can Foster Healthy Attachment in Adoptive Families

Many Christians build their families through adoption out of loving concern for orphans and to live the faith James describes. I hope churches continue to bring the orphan crisis to light. And, as they do, I pray we—as the Church—can come alongside the families whose children’s past trauma continues to cause the “distress” James 1:27 mentions.

DSM-5: Rethinking Reactive Attachment Disorder

DSM-5: Rethinking Reactive Attachment Disorder

In early 2016, when I read through the new criteria for Reactive Attachment Disorder, I found myself hard pressed to think of any condition in which so great a disconnect exists between the way it is defined by academicians and community-based clinicians.