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Uncontrollable Kids: From Heartbreak to Hope

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Author: Foster W. Cline
Publisher: Love Logic Press
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 348
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.8

ISBN: 1930429193
Dewey Decimal Number: 649
EAN: 9781930429192
ASIN: 1930429193

Publication Date: July 2001
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
More and more children are emotionally hurt early in life and cannot form the relationships necessary to heal themselves. The cost as these children become adults is beyond estimation. This book takes a hard-hitting look at our society's key role in creating uncontrollable, unreachable young people and the no-nonsense steps we absolutely must take toward a genuine solution.

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1 out of 5 stars

Sadistic Pop Psychotherapy April 4, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful

Cline formerly entitled this book "Conscienceless Acts, Societal Mayhem" (1995). That book apparently got too much deserved bad publicity. Cline, a founder of Attachment Therapy (aka Holding Therapy, Rage Reduction, etc.), is still promoting this brutal, unvalidated fringe psychotherapy inflicted on foster and adopted children. br / br /Says Cline:br /br /"...this therapy helps them form [attachment] by purposely recapitulating the first-year-of-life experiences. This is not easy for lay people and even professionals to watch, for what the practitioner is doing is actually pushing (provoking) the client to feel helpless and hopeless, like a baby, by holding the client and making him uncomfortable. The result is that the client goes into a rage. However, this rage is not the simple screaming of an infant -- the child yells, strikes out, tries to bite, sulks, curses, threatens, struggles, and kicks before finally submitting to the therapist's authority."br /br /Coercive restraint used in this matter is technically a form of torture.br /br /Cline's methods are denounced by the American Psychological Association's Division on Child Maltreatment as inappropriate for all children (see the journal *Child Maltreatment* Feb 2006). Use of Attachment Therapy and its parenting meathods are considered grounds for child welfare workers to investigate for suspected child abuse.br /br /It says a lot about the Love and Logic Institute (founded by Cline with Jim Fay) that they are still promoting these extremely abusive practices.br / br /

5 out of 5 stars

A promising solution December 27, 2003
Uncontrollable kids is a book not only for desperate parents but social workers, doctors, nurses, therapists, teachers, legislators- anyone who wishes to effectively change the nationwide chaos created by "unattached" children. Foster Cline passionately describes an overwhelming social dilemma caused by drug abusing or neglecting parents whose children are left unable to feel guilt or remorse. Unattached children grow to become unfeeling, irresponsible adults or more even callous criminals. Cline mentions Ted Bundy as an extreme example of the "lack of bonding" between birth and two years of age. He describes the social programs and welfare systems that perpetuate unattached family cycles, destroying inner cities and now reaching previously cloistered suburbs and small towns. He goes on to describe some behaviors seen in less extreme examples of these children. Cline also explains the benefits of and opposition to a very promising therapeutic technique with encouraging evidence of effectiveness in dealing with these vexing young people. Only problem- he recommends intensive training to deal help these children. Not alot of help if you see them in a classroom or neighborhood every day.

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