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<blockquote data-quote="timer lady" data-source="post: 137434" data-attributes="member: 393"><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>PW,</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>I recall emergency shelter to be a short term "fix", if you will, until a more appropriate long term placement is found. wm was in short term shelter & he loved it for the freedoms.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>Staff just either didn't or were not instructed to keep any level of structure or mete out consequences. It was about keeping the calm until something else could be worked out for wm & he loved it. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>in my humble opinion, acute setting phospitals, some RTCs, day treatments can, in many ways, set a family up to fail as most normal families do not have the wherewithal to provide the level of supervision, structure or entertainment that is provided in these facilities. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>Not many of these children are taught self calming skills or to recognize the need for them; not taught how to self amuse; or even how to stop & think. Many of these life skills, no matter the diagnosis, need to follow from therapy to phospital, to Residential Treatment Center (RTC), to day treatment & progress into home life. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>Okay - off my soapbox! I promise. From the parent's end I've been frustrated with the inability to build a team willing to work a well written treatment plan & follow through from acute crisis situations to the home setting. Okay - I'm really off my soapbox now.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>I feel for this mother & her difficult child. I pray God that an appropriate treatment placement can be found for him that gives Mom as much contact as is possible while keeping her & daughter safe at home. Thanks for the update.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong>by the way, do you make housecalls? I have a few things that need to be mediated up this way & I know you'd do a world of good for wm (don't expect honesty anytime soon though).</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><strong></strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timer lady, post: 137434, member: 393"] [COLOR=DarkRed][B]PW, I recall emergency shelter to be a short term "fix", if you will, until a more appropriate long term placement is found. wm was in short term shelter & he loved it for the freedoms. Staff just either didn't or were not instructed to keep any level of structure or mete out consequences. It was about keeping the calm until something else could be worked out for wm & he loved it. in my humble opinion, acute setting phospitals, some RTCs, day treatments can, in many ways, set a family up to fail as most normal families do not have the wherewithal to provide the level of supervision, structure or entertainment that is provided in these facilities. Not many of these children are taught self calming skills or to recognize the need for them; not taught how to self amuse; or even how to stop & think. Many of these life skills, no matter the diagnosis, need to follow from therapy to phospital, to Residential Treatment Center (RTC), to day treatment & progress into home life. Okay - off my soapbox! I promise. From the parent's end I've been frustrated with the inability to build a team willing to work a well written treatment plan & follow through from acute crisis situations to the home setting. Okay - I'm really off my soapbox now. I feel for this mother & her difficult child. I pray God that an appropriate treatment placement can be found for him that gives Mom as much contact as is possible while keeping her & daughter safe at home. Thanks for the update. by the way, do you make housecalls? I have a few things that need to be mediated up this way & I know you'd do a world of good for wm (don't expect honesty anytime soon though). [/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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