Detached Kids Attachment-Trauma Disorders and Issues
Attachment and trauma issues for students are occurring at schools around the United States at a high rate. Over 500,000 children spend time in foster care each year and over 2 million abuse reports are founded. Five percent of U.S. children are being raised by grandparents.
The primary goals of Why is Johnny So Detached? and this website are:
1. Increase awareness of attachment and trauma issues in the school setting;
2. Increase knowledge about attachment and trauma issues; and
3. Increase attachment isssue sensitive and specific tools for interventions and prevention.
When behavioral issues are intense and severe, structured interventions are needed to control behaviors and avoid intensely negative and self-defeating patterns of behavior. School professionals often need and want information that is research and theory and packed to apply to student, classroom, and family situations.
Dr. Ottavi's model of Detached Kids stresses consideration of individual child and parent input. He also seeks to provide school professionals with knowledge and approaches to build relationships with students who have a variety of issues which create barriers to collaborative work. Whether the goals are educational or behavioral improvement, relationship building among school professionals, the child and parent are vital to establishing a postivitive results and progress.
Why is Johnny So Detached? focuses on a variety of school issues common for students with attachment and trauma issues or disorders.