Attachment Barriers

1. Separation from parents through foster care moves.
2. Adoption after attachment to another parent figure
   has occurred.
3. Prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol.
4. Traumas like sexual abuse, physical abuse,
   and domestic violence.
5. Major depression, schizophrenia, or manic-
   depressive illness in the parent figure.
6. Drug or alcohol addiction in the parent figure.
7. Orphanage care.
8. Hospitalization of parent or child, during which
   children lose access to their parents.
9. Neglect.

Checklist for symptoms of Attachment Disorder Foster Cline M.D.

1. Superficially engaging and charming behavior.
2. Lack of eye contact on parental terms.
3. Indiscriminate affection with strangers.
4. Lack of affection (cuddliness) on parents’ terms.
5. Destructiveness to self, others and material things, (accident prone).
6. Cruelty to animals.
7. Stealing
8. Lying about the obvious (crazy lying).
9. Lack of impulse controls (hyperactive-type behavior).
10. Learning lags
11. Absence of conscience.
12. Lack of cause and effect thinking.
13. Abnormal eating patterns.
14. Poor peer relations.
15. Preoccupation with fire.
16. Persistent nonsense questions and incessant chatter.
17. Inappropriate demands and clingy behavior.
18. Abnormal speech pattern.