The group's mission is to provide advocacy by "raising general public awareness of the dangers and cruelty" of practices related to attachment therapy.
According to the group, "ACT works to mobilize parents, professionals, private and governmental regulators, prosecutors, juries, and legislators to end the physical torture and emotional abuse that is Attachment Therapy.
Restraint of the child by more powerful adult(s) is considered an essential part of the confrontation" and refers to attachment therapy as "the worst quackery in our nation today.
AD is thought to be a child's inability to form a close, loving relationship with his caregiver, typically because of early childhood abuse or neglect.
[6] The ACT website also reports on cases which it identifies as involving elements of attachment therapy, including some for which its members assisted authorities.