![]() ![]() Abnormal eating and elimination patterns (e.g., wetting, soiling, hoarding food).Problems with learning, attending, self-regulating, self-monitoring.Lack of physical affection and closeness and/or inappropriate clinginess.Lack of authenticity, spontaneity, flexibility, and empathy.Anti-social behaviors (e.g., lying, stealing, manipulating, destructiveness, cruelty, fire-setting, aggression).Indiscriminately seeks affection and/or comfort from strangers (i.e., pseudo-attachments).History of abandonment, neglect, abuse, and/or multiple placements. ![]() Some of the basic signs/characteristics that a person struggles with attachment are: Attachment is on a spectrum – from healthy to insecure to disorganized (often diagnosed as an attachment disorder). These less-than-healthy ways of attaching are often not diagnosed as disorders, but are common in children who have backgrounds of abuse or neglect or who are no longer with their biological parents, who have had the loss of one or more parents, who are in foster care, who have had several medical procedures or who have been adopted. Children who have had breaks from their primary caregiver, unmitigated pain, abuse, neglect or in other ways have not had their needs met can often be impaired in their ability to develop healthy emotional attachments. This is currently called by many names, such as insecure attachment. ![]()
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