title: Reactive attachment disorder: a preventable mental health disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To discuss attachment disorders; most specifically, Reactive Attachment Disorder, its etiology, background causes, symptoms, and its prevention with the intervention of allopathic, chiropractic, naturopathic, and osteopathic physicians.
  
  
  METHODS
  An online search and review of the literature regarding Reactive Attachment Disorder was performed through Pubmed and Google. The articles, interview information, and books utilized for this paper were selected by historical significance, date of publication, pertinent information, and, most specifically, those sources of pertinent data regarding Reactive Attachment Disorder.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Reactive Attachment Disorder is a mental health disease with neurological implications, which may be caused by abuse during the first five years of life. Recognition of this disease, its background causes, and knowledge of effective parenting guidelines, are reasonable expectations for all physicians and mental health care providers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A collaborative effort by all physicians to prevent Reactive Attachment Disorder through the implementation of effective parenting might reduce the incidence of this mental health disease in children and adults.
authors.affiliation: Private Practice as a Board Certified Chiropractic Orthopedist in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Guest faculty member of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine; In addition, and President of the Board of Directors of the Villa Santa Maria, a residential treatment center for children afflicted with reactive attachment disorder.
authors.forename: James J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Lehman
authors.forename: Shereen K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Jegtvig
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