School Issues

Captive in the Classroom (purchase on Nancy Thomas' secure store) - This three hour video set by Nancy Thomas, presents powerful techniques for teaching and surviving disruptive, defiant, and Reactive Attachment disorder students.

Clear concise tools to identify emotionally disturbed children and youth who have the potential for violence are included. Effective classroom interventions for emotionally disturbed students are clearly explained.

Many parents have purchased this tape to share with their children’s teachers to save their sanity while making them a vital part of the healing team.

Helpful Articles

Dr. Bruce Perry on the Scholastics Website

Bonding and Attachment in Maltreated Children:
How you can help
Dr. Bruce Perry

Principles of Working with Traumatized Children
Dr. Bruce Perry

Special Topics Informing
Work with Maltreated Children
Dr. Bruce Perry

The following articles are from Attachment Disorder Maryland:

Oil and Water: The Attachment Disordered Child in School

Behaviors Commonly Displayed by AD Children in School

Characteristics of School that are Problematic for the Attachment Disordered Child

Intervention for School

Enemy Within
by Linda Ann Smith

S.A.F.E.
 From CASE

Homework
by Nancy Thomas

Navigating Uncharted Waters
by Boris Gindis

Education and the Child of Trauma
by Bryan Post

International Adoptees and School
by Boris Gindis