Our nation faces serious challenges with our children and their parents with rising rates of depression, anxiety, aggression, abuse and other serious emotional and behavioral problems. Mental health experts agree that this crisis is largely due to their lack of deep connectedness within their family and community. Armed with increased knowledge and understanding of the critical importance of a secure parent/child attachment relationships as a prevention model, rooted in over sixty years of multidisciplinary research, juvenile and family court judges can better advocate and protect children within the context of home and community.
