 Attachment therapy is a treatment used primarily with fostered or adopted children who have behavioral difficulties, sometimes severe, but including disobedience and perceived lack of gratitude or affection for their caregivers.The children's problems are ascribed to an inability to attach to their new parents, because of suppressed rage due to past maltreatment and abandonment.The common form of attachment therapy is "holding" therapy, in which a child is firmly held (or lain upon) by therapists or parents.