Nonverbal Processing and Social Competency in Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder

• Published in: Behavioral development bulletin (Philadelphia, Pa.) Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 11 - 17
• Main Authors: Sheaffer, Beverly L, Golden, Jeannie A, Bridgers, Katharine T, Hall, Cathy W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Joseph D. Cautilli 2009; Development & Behavior Analysis Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavior Analysis
• Subjects: Adopted Children; Attachment Disorders; Competence; Facial Expressions; Female; Foster Care; Foster Children; Human; Male; Social Cognition; Social Skills; nonverbal processing; reactive attachment disorder; paralanguage; decoding; facial expressions

This study investigated decoding of facial and paralanguage expressions of emotion in children with and without reactive attachment disorder (RAD), Participants aged 5 to 19 years completed the Adult and Child Facial Expressions and Paralanguage subtests of the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accur...