But really according to Brenda McCreight it is actually due to the brain's growth. This is because the child’s brain is not developed to its potential it should be at that age. This can only be helped by time and enhancements in the environment and a stable family atmosphere to help the child from attachment issues (McCreight). Most times when a family goes into an adoption they are excited that they get to help a child and start a family of their own. But most times when families start the process of adopting a child they don’t know how they will act or even feel when they get older about the situation of being adopted. Sometimes they will be okay and you wouldn’t know the difference from if you had the child or if you have adopted the child. But some children take it a lot harder and may form a disorder. This disorder may be something hard for the child to overcome, or it may be an easy fix, depending on the child’s personality. Most children when they are adopted or even born don’t come with a manual on how they work because not one child is the same. But when you do adopt a child they do provide you with information about RAD (Berger). RAD (reactive attachment disorder) has two forms it can show up as, one …show more content…
Creating a secure base includes multiple things and steps. According to the book Secure Base Model there are five steps to help ensure that they can start with a solid base for your child. These five steps are available, sensitivity, acceptance, co-operation and family membership (Schofield 15). Basically these five steps of Caregiving are making sure they hit all the important things so they can develop the relationship and secure base with your child (Schofield 14). So the parents would want to make sure to do their very best to love and care for your child as much as they can as early as they can in the adoption. Also, the parents would even want to make sure to reassure your child as much as possible so that they are able to be reassured that they are yours, and they cannot just be taken away like they were when they got sent somewhere to be adopted. So if parents are able to detect this at a young age, they would want to constantly reassure them that they are yours, and that they will love and care for them the rest of their life, and things along those lines. One example of this happening is from the article called Dealing with trust and control issues, they stated that they had adopted their son at age three and he was now six, they overcame the attachment issues