About This Session

This course will unpack attachment disorders and provide ways to help adults become loving leaders, and empathetic adults, who provide tight structure and firm limit setting.

Have you ever felt manipulated or tricked by your child? Do you feel like you have lost control? Are you concerned that your child or student is lying awake at night planning ways to drive you crazy during the day? As a child with an attachment disorder grows older, finding ways to demonstrate, and initiate, that they are in control dominates their daily experience. Even the slightest doubt can cause them to steal, lie, and purposely act out to upset others and regain control. When put into a safe situation where adults want to nurture and care for them, they feel uncomfortable and resist giving up control. The last time they were not in control (as infants), they almost died, so it makes sense that they have learned skills to help them survive. But this makes it VERY challenging to build a relationship with or to parent them.

About Your Instructor

Stacey Gagnon is a foster mom, adoptive mom, blogger, educator, published children’s book author, a registered nurse, and an international speaker. She writes the popular blog on adoption and foster care at ransomforisrael.com​. Stacey and her husband Darren founded Lost Sparrows, Inc in 2016 to alleviate the flow of children into orphanages in Eastern Europe. She also began a program to help first responders communicate with schools when children are involved with the police called Trauma Lens Care. She has traveled across the US and Europe speaking and training on the effects of trauma on children and advocating for special needs children. You can find out more about Trauma Lens Care at traumalenscare.org and about Lost Sparrows at lostsparrows.org​.

Stacey Gagnon

Lost Sparrows Founder; Board Member

"Even with working in the field of trauma and child welfare for almost a decade, I rarely see classes and resources on RAD. I think the world would be a better place if more professionals, parents, and people in general could learn about the different issues facing our children. I look forward to sharing this information with my coworkers and family."

- 2023 Lost Sparrows Trauma Conference Attendee

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"This session could have been twice as long. RAD is so complex and isolating--having Stacy both empathize and educate with humor is such a valuable resource."

- 2023 Lost Sparrows Trauma Conference Attendee

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