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reactive attachment disorder

reactive attachment disorder Reactive attachment disorder is a diagnosis describing severe, developmentally inappropriate problems in how a young child relates socially, beginning before age 5 and linked to grossly pathological caregiving.

Reactive attachment disorder is a diagnosis describing severe, developmentally inappropriate problems in how a young child relates socially, beginning before age 5 and linked to grossly pathological caregiving. It may involve a persistent failure to start or respond to social interaction in an age-appropriate way, or unusually indiscriminate sociability with diffuse attachments.