 Coercive techniques, such as scheduled or enforced holding, may also serve the intended purpose of demonstrating dominance over the child.Establishing total adult control, demonstrating to the child that he or she has no control, and demonstrating that all of the child's needs are met through the adult, is a central tenet of many controversial attachment therapies.Similarly, many controversial treatments hold that children described as attachment–disordered must be pushed to revisit and relive early trauma.