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The problem
Intervention: Placement in nurturing, good-quality family placements judged positively by social and child health services
Who it was tested with: Three boys with RAD symptoms who had been placed in family care judged to be of good quality.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"All three boys in the case series met DSM 5 criteria for RAD in late childhood/early adolescence and had stable RAD symptoms since before age 5." This demonstrates that despite placement in nurturing care, RAD symptoms can persist, suggesting that standard good-quality placement alone may not resolve RAD in all cases, and that additional factors or specialized interventions may be needed.
Small case series (n=3) limits generalizability; unclear whether good-quality placements received specialized attachment-focused interventions; study does not evaluate a specific clinical intervention but rather observes outcomes in standard placements.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 2 countries
