maybe its just me, but it would seem that if a child has problems attaching themself to someone, wouldn't forcing them just push them further away?
i know in training animals, if you just grab an animal and try to force it, it will try to either escape, hurt or kill you, or both. its a long process of earning its trust, and developing a bond. wouldn't it make more sense to treat this "attachment disorder" the same way?
Common sense on dealing with a kid who doesn't trust anyone would be to show, by example, that you are loving and can be trusted. Of course, nobody would pay for that advice.
Of course it would. Which is why this "therapy" is not only ineffective but also dangerous. However, it's ineffectiveness is a major key to its success: since the symptoms don't go away, the sellers can push more and more treatment. As I noted above, I think this cr*p is being sold almost exclusively to stay-at-home mothers, who lack the daily reality checks that interacting with a variety of sane adults in a workplace would deliver. There is nobody around to ask incredulously "You do WHAT to your child?" Stay-at-home mothers of seriously disturbed and/or neurologically impaired children naturally gravitate towards support groups and social networks consisting of people in similar situations. And if they fall in with a group that believes in this brand of quackery, its alleged legitimacy and benefits will be reinforced, not ridiculed, by the group.