Day 324. Survivors found: 6
Every once in a while, you get lucky…
I’ve been meaning to compile and publish a list of every single practitioner of this murderous quackery, but children keep dying or going missing, so one tends to get preoccupied, you know?
Well, these AT/P and RAD proponents are so zealous, they’ve kindly gone ahead and done the work for me:
Attachment Therapist Listing
Organized by State and Name
(Courtesy of “RadKid”)
Gang’s all there! Neil Feinberg, Gregory Keck, Deborah Hage and Arthur Becker-Weidman (the guy who tried to get Advocates for Children in Therapy’s site shut down, oh ho more on this later), to name a few.
I’ve got both hands full, a backlog of twenty posts and one rather smashing venture underway if I do say so myself (9 more days people!), so I’d really no time to get together a list like this.
Thanks again, quacks!
(My only complaint is that you didn’t include international holding therapists such as Jirina Prekop, who likes to torment autistic children just as much as Martha Welch does! For shame.)
ETA: Quack Nancy Thomas‘s website also maintains an ever-handy list of attachment therapists in all 50 US states, Canada and England, plus “residential facilities familiar with RAD.”
Scary.
Also, ATTACh (the trade organization for attachment therapists) posts a listing of its “registered clinical members” both by name and by state:
ATTACh Alphabetical Listing
ATTACh Listing by State
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Wayward, there are more in my state than this list offers. I will get you their names in the near future. I congratulate you on posting these, though. It is a very good idea and a very useful tool! I think that Martha Welch’s website has a lot of listings by state too. Nothing like a watch list.
Posted 16 Jan 2009 at 23:44 ¶Many thanks, Eastern Sky. I will edit this post to add the unlisted AT quacks in your state as soon as you get their names. Will check out Welch’s site too, cheers for the tip.
Posted 16 Jan 2009 at 23:51 ¶Oops, my bad. I meant Nancy Thomas’ website, not Martha Welch’s. Sometimes I just type too fast!
Posted 17 Jan 2009 at 00:20 ¶Here is the Nancy Thomas link for “therapists” in different states:
http://www.nancythomasparenting.com/pages_find_therapist.php
Posted 17 Jan 2009 at 00:22 ¶Over the years, I’ve counted some 800-900 Attachment Therapists and “therapeutic foster parents.” But an accurate count is not possible since many Attachment Therapists today refer to themselves as “family therapist” or “adoption therapist.”
A couple years ago, a journalist reported that ATTACh, the trade organization for Attachment Therapists, had 600 members, a count that includes some number of parent members, as well.
Posted 17 Jan 2009 at 02:01 ¶and once again… on the flip side, parents see this, are being told there is no help for their kid by others and end up in their cult…
I have found few adoptive parents against the RAD point of view (that all foster/adoptive kids have RAD)
they one that do think its bunk see it as all the all crap treatments (like those people that follow thoses ADHD diets ect…)
so, that is just one way parents get sucked into this…
Candace Newmaker’s adoptive mom was sucked in at an ATTACh conference held in Virginia..
Posted 17 Jan 2009 at 12:55 ¶Re Linda Rosa’s comment: Can we also now add the label “regulatory therapist”? I noticed too that Juli Alvarado calls herself a “life coach”. I’m also noticing that many of these people say that they are “trauma” specialists and therapists, who work with “traumatized” or “damaged” children. The use of euphemism in the “attachment community” is something that I see over and over again.
Posted 17 Jan 2009 at 18:52 ¶One more for the list? I don’t think that I would want this guy sitting or spitting on any child that I know:
http://www.nancythomasparenting.com/pages_parents_consultations.php
Posted 17 Jan 2009 at 19:21 ¶Eastern Sky: Good point about the “life coach.” This is another big problem area in Attachment Therapy (and perhaps other areas of mental health quackery, as well), i.e. where people with or without any professional license may call themselves a life coach or “parenting coach” and practice anywhere — visiting homes in states where they have no license, and/or engaging in therapy via email or phone. One such parenting coach claimed to be treating a Brazilian child via video.
We shouldn’t wonder that this free-for-all area of mental health practice developed. Even when it is possible to demonstrate that someone is “treating” and “diagnosing” without a license, many state mental health boards won’t do a thing to stop it, claiming they can only discipline people who have a license to begin with. But by law, boards should order such people to cease practicing and pass on such cases to their state attorney general or local district attorney for enforcement.
Posted 17 Jan 2009 at 20:59 ¶Juli Alvarado out was part of Bryan Post’s cult and probably still is… she was even setting up a group home of his in her state (but I guess that never got off the ground)
she was at several of his cult meetings Parent Boot Camps, Family group intensives…
She is part of the RAD cult…regulatory parenting is his crap… he says he can cure RAD
Posted 18 Jan 2009 at 05:38 ¶Here’s another statewide list of attachment therapists. I’m sure there is some overlap with the other lists that Wayward Radish noted, but it looks like there are always a few new names too:
http://www.thelittleprince.org/attachmenttherapistlisting.html
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