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Positive Behaviour Support for Reactive Attachment Disorder
Positive Behaviour Support for Reactive Attachment Disorder is a practical, step-by-step guide designed to help caregivers, educators, and professionals understand behaviour through an attachment-informed, trauma-responsive, and compassion-focused lens. Instead of seeing behaviour as intentional or defiant, this book reframes it as communication — a reflection of the child’s internal experience, relational fears, and nervous system responses.
Buy on AmazonRAD can profoundly influence how a child or adolescent experiences relationships, safety, and everyday interactions. Early disruptions in caregiving can shape the developing brain and nervous system, making trust, connection, and co-regulation extremely difficult. What may appear as withdrawal, anger, avoidance, controlling behaviour, or sudden shifts to compliance is often the young person’s nervous system working hard to protect them from perceived relational danger.
Positive Behaviour Support for Reactive Attachment Disorder is a practical, step-by-step guide designed to help caregivers, educators, and professionals understand behaviour through an attachment-informed, trauma-responsive, and compassion-focused lens. Instead of seeing behaviour as intentional or defiant, this book reframes it as communication — a reflection of the child’s internal experience, relational fears, and nervous system responses.
Inside, you will learn how to:
• Understand how early relational trauma, disrupted attachment, and chronic stress shape behaviour in RAD
• Identify early signs of relational discomfort, fear, overwhelm, or shutdown
• Reduce triggers by creating predictable, safe, sensitive, and attuned environments
• Support emotional regulation through co-regulation, connection, and low-arousal approaches
• Conduct a functional behaviour assessment informed by attachment needs and trauma history
• Develop proactive prevention plans that build felt safety, trust, and relational stability
• Respond calmly and respectfully during moments of escalation, avoidance, push–pull behaviour, or shutdown
• Build the child’s sense of competence, emotional vocabulary, and relational skills through strengths-based teaching
This book includes practical tools and templates to guide you through assessing, managing, and preventing behaviours of concern. Whether you are a parent, teacher, support worker, allied health professional, or behaviour support practitioner, you will gain clear, actionable strategies that help the young person you support feel safe, connected, understood, and capable — in a way that honours their lived experience and supports healing through relationships.