Reaching Troubled Kids

Are there really 298 different disorders plus countless other syndromes of problem behaviour? Could it be that we have been missing something more fundamental about how the brain works and thus what can go wrong? Neufeld insists that there now are enough puzzle pieces to reveal not only the emotional roots of troubled experience and problem behavior, but even the particular emotions responsible. Using the lens of development, he also helps us understand how these problems first develop in childhood and what they look like at their beginnings. In distilling these dynamics to their essence, he also opens the doors to reversing these problems in both childhood and adulthood.

This approach to troubled kids is Dr. Neufeld’s synthesis and distillation of the relevant theory and research, honed by over 50 years of clinical practice involving troubled children and youth. This insight model provides a refreshing alternative to the more common behavioural and cognitive approaches, as well as to the medical 'disease' or ‘disorder’ approach. The attachment-based developmental approach has clear and practical implications for parenting, education and treatment, regardless of one’s arena of involvement and venue of application. This approach also applies to adults, as the dynamics of trouble are the same.