What role do primary caregivers have in the therapy process?
The major role. Primary caregivers are trained to essentially be therapeutic parents. They are an integral part of the therapy process and are in the room with the child participating in the child’s therapy. Parents must be trained in the home therapy techniques and approaches that will make the time spent in professional therapy shorter. Home must be turned into a treatment center. Parents must be trained in specialized parenting techniques that enhance the bonding/trust process of their child and must be supported by the therapist in healing the hurts that these children have caused them and any old childhood triggers of their own that these children have reminded them of. It is common for families of attachment-disordered kids to have symptoms of secondary post-traumatic stress disorder (or compassion fatigue), caused by the stress that these children can create. If the child needs neuro-behavioral therapy for brain-repatterning purposes, the parents need to be trained to conduct th
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