Advocates for Children in Therapy

WARNING!!

Beware of Other People Posing as
‘Advocates for Children in Therapy’

We here are the one and only ACT — have been since 2001!

Some deceptive blogs have started appearing claiming to be by the “true” Advocates for Children in Therapy (ACT), along with pretended links to “childrenintherapy.org&rdquo “advocatesforchildrenintherapy.org” (our web addresses). In fact, however, these links actually take the unwary to advertisements promoting the services of Attachment Therapist Ronald Federici.

Federici has also been harassing a website which has been highly critical of the type of prone restraint which his writings promote.

Assisted by Arthur Becker-Weidman, Federici recently led a cabal of Attachment Therapists, including Neil Feinberg, Daniel Hughes, Gregory Keck, Nancy Thomas, and David Ziegler, making harassing (and false) claims of copyright violation against us and others.

Professor Jean Mercer, President of ACT’s Board of Professional Advisors, separates the wheat from the chaff in understanding children at her new blog, Myths About Child Development. And now as a blogger for Psychology Today!

A SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS

A Blog Site for survivors of Attachment Therapy and associated "RAD" parenting

Watch Attachment (Holding) Therapy Demonstrations on YouTube

Are you a victim of
Attachment (Holding) Therapy?

Write us at:
victims@childrenintherapy.org

— Site Contents —

Essays about Attachment Therapy and why we oppose it, such as:

Attachment Therapy: Child Abuse by Another Name
Abusive Techniques
AT versus Conventional Therapies
When Is an Evidentiary Basis on the Level?
Valid Evidence for AT?
AT Parenting Techniques
Reparenting
Government Subsidies for AT

Accounts of some of the publicly known cases where the involvement of Attachment Therapy or Attachment Therapy Parenting has become apparent.

Statements by prominent persons and organizations opposing Attachment Therapy or the specific things it does to kids.

Discussion of AT practices, theories, and beliefs as they are analyzed in the peer-reviewed academic and professional literature.

An archive of ACT’s occasional email newsletter covering current events about Attachment Therapy.

Attachment Therapists (and proponents of AT) are recognizable by what they say.
So what do they say? Shortcut to the words of:

Recent postings on ACT’s Website

We’re Back!

A cabal of Attachment Therapists recently attempted to use the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to silence us. They vainly chased us around the Internet, complaining to web hosters that our fair use of quotes from their publications and presentations were infringements on their copyrights, and demanding that the hosters remove our entire site. Their outrageous misuse of the DMCA did cost us our relationship with our long-time host. Thankfully, we found another server (Project DoD) who would courageously stand up to their bullying. (In our opinion, bullying is the most used tool in the Attachment Therapy armamentarium — no surprise they tried to use it on us.)

Eventually, we (and DoD) called their legal bluff and we’re still here, more determined than ever to expose the abuse that is Attachment Therapy. We hope soon to be posting more about the “DMCA Incident.” Watch for it!

For the record, the cabal was led by Ronald Federici (assisted by Arthur Becker-Weidman), with the active involvement of Neil Feinberg, Dan Hughes, Gregory Keck, Nancy Thomas, and David Ziegler. Federici also claimed that he anticipated the subsequent participation of Bryan Post and Martha Welch, which never materialized.

In His Own Words: William Goble

William Goble is a central figure in Attachment Therapy, with numerous Attachment Therapists claiming to have trained under him. He gained wide notoriety with his involvement in the case of Candace Newmaker, the ten-year-old North Carolina girl killed by Attachment Therapists in 2000.