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&rdquo “advocatesforchildrenintherapy” (using “.com” addresses, whereas our actual web addresses are “.org”). These pretender links actually take the unwary to advertisements or websites promoting the services of Attachment Therapist Ronald Federici.
Federici has also been targetting two other independent websites for harassment. One has a webpage which has been highly critical of the type of prone restraint that his writings promote. The other is a blog for survivors of Attachment Therapy/Parenting.
Assisted by Arthur Becker-Weidman, Federici recently led a cabal of Attachment Therapists, including Neil Feinberg, Daniel Hughes, Gregory Keck, Nancy Thomas, David Ziegler, and Heather Forbes, making harassing (and baseless) claims of copyright violation against us and others.
Professor Jean Mercer, Executive Director of ACT, 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
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:
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Recent developments with ACT’s Website
- New Executive Director
Larry Sarner, who has long been Administrative Director for ACT, has succeeded Linda Rosa, RN, as Executive Director. Linda has been tapped by the newly formed http:Institute of Science in Medicine to be their ED.
- We’re Still Here!
A cabal of Attachment Therapists attempted in 2008 and 2009 to use the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to silence us. For awhile they chased us around the Internet, complaining to web hosters that our fair use of quotations 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 almost immediately found another server (Project DoD) who courageously stood up to the bullying. (In our opinion, bullying is the most used tool in the Attachment Therapist armamentarium — no surprise they try 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. There is more about the history of this by Project DoD.
For the record, the cabal was led by Ronald Federici of Virginia (assisted by Arthur Becker-Weidman of New York), with the active involvement of Neil Feinberg of Colorado, Daniel Hughes of Pennsylvania (previously Maine), Gregory Keck of Ohio, Nancy Thomas of Colorado, and David Ziegler of Oregon.
Federici had early on claimed to DoD that he anticipated the similar take-down demands from Bryan Post and Martha Welch, but those never materialized. Though, in late 2009, we survived the same nonsense from another attachment therapist, and Federic business colleague, Heather Forbes of Colorado (previously of Florida).
About Us at ACT:
Other Web Sites/Pages We Recommend:
A Search for Survivors — A Blog Site for survivors of Attachment Therapy and associated abuse.
— One loaded with documentation on AT.
The Etiology of a Social Epidemic — An historical account of AT’s indebtedness to its forebears in the Transactional Analysis movement.
Restraint Asphyxia Resources — Exposure of one of the most dangerous practices in AT.
