In other words, it requires therapeutic parenting.

There are other groups of children that require this same type of parenting.  One of these groups is children with Reactive Attachment Disorder, or RAD.  Typically these children have been adopted and the attachment disorder comes from the early childhood trauma they experienced before being with their adoptive family.  With that, there are some very distinct differences between bipolar children and RAD children and by no means am I implying that children with bipolar disorder have RAD.  In fact, if anything I know my son is very attached (he is mine by birth) and has a great deal of separation anxiety when he is away from me too long.  However,  interestingly, a lot of the behaviors that these two groups of kids display can be similar and more importantly the parenting techniques required in many of the circumstances presented by the two groups of kids are also similar.   Because of this, I enjoy reading some blogs of families dealing with RAD as I can really relate to and empathize with many of the situations they encounter.

Some of the blogs I enjoy the most are:

http://www.welcometomybrain.net

http://www.watchingthewaters.com/

http://waldenbunch.blogspot.com/

http://goldtorefine.blogspot.com

http://peaceinpuzzles.blogspot.com/

Check them out.