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<blockquote data-quote="Zardo" data-source="post: 509198" data-attributes="member: 12490"><p>Update - The woman at the program decided to refer him out. She said that difficult child has been through much SA counseling and he has been clean for quite a while now. (she now believes the follicle test). She said the larger issues to be addressed are behavioral and that's not really their thing. SO - I can appreciate that. Having said that, I am not happy with this outcome. I am fine with switching counselors to a more approapriate fit and there is another agency near the school where difficult child has worked with someone before that he likes and I do think that can be helpful, but she involved the psychiatrist who has been perscribing his ADD medications and Celexa and now there is a problem. For a couple of months, difficult child has been asking to stop taking Celexa. He feels he doesn't need it and he is doing better. Again, that OD attitude is still there, but it's much better than it was and he is making gains. I will admit that I and the psychiatrists had been blowing off his request. I never dealt with it or gave him a chance, I would just kind of blow him off when he tried to talk about it. When he met the psychiatrist this week, he told him that he is not willing to take it anymore and that he has already stopped on his own. I don't find that too unusual for a teen. In fact, I have many friends with teens who struggle within the normal range for teens and they have refused to take such medications at times or refused to take ADD medications. I will say that difficult child has been pretty cooperative with medications. He has been on the Celexa for about a year and when I spoke to him about it last night he said, I have been asking but no one woudl listen, "I'm doing much better and I don't want to be on anti-depressants forever." He does struggle with anxiety more than depression, so I told him this is where the concern is. He wants a chance. I don't really think that's all that unreasonable. I guess the psychiatrist said that he considers it "non-compliance" with medications and he is no longer willing to prescibe to him. This is a problem. I feel that the counselor does not know difficult child very well (only 1 month) and causing this type of disruption in his care is a problem. The same psychiatrist is the treating psychiatrist for this other agency. The counselor reccomended and in-home program where services come to your home 2-3 days per week. I think that would be great, but he's at boarding school. In the absence of that, she said there's a behavioral IOP nearby to the shool. I looked into it and don't find it appropriate. When I read up, the mission of this program is to provide services in an effort to intervene with kids that may otherwise be hospitalized. It's 3-5 days per week for 3 hours per day. I believe the school would say he cannot be gone that much and stay enrolled. He would have a real problem completing homework and they will not make accomidations. difficult child has made substantial progress this year. He has proven that he is committed to not using ( I know it's only a period of time, but it's significant progress), his demeanor at home has been MUCH better, I just got a progress report from school and the comments were surprisingly good. YES - he remains generally unmotivated, thinks unrealistically about the future and struggles with rules that he thinks are "stupid"; ie. bed time. Although this can be somewhat normal for teens, his conviction of being right about his beliefs are strong. So - am I crazy to say that I don't think he is bad enough right now to interuppt school AGAIN. Don't forget, I removed him from school for SA at the end of last year and he spent 90 days at Wilderness. I know the school would say that he's not perfect, but he is doing OK and they feel it's important for him to finish this year out. This is a school that is HIGHLY structurred and had consistant consequences that he is not spared from. I am thinking that weekly individual counseling along with participation in the on-campus SA program which includes weekly random drug testing is a better direction for now. We get through this school year and go from there. I am a believer that if the behaviors are more in the crisis range, he must be removed from his current setting. We did that last year as his use and defiance was spiraling out of control. That is not the case right now. Once he is home, there are in-home programs around our home. If he struggles, we register as CHINS and move forward with the in-home services. Truthfully, based on his current behavior and attitude, I would be surprised if that happens. Thoughts???</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zardo, post: 509198, member: 12490"] Update - The woman at the program decided to refer him out. She said that difficult child has been through much SA counseling and he has been clean for quite a while now. (she now believes the follicle test). She said the larger issues to be addressed are behavioral and that's not really their thing. SO - I can appreciate that. Having said that, I am not happy with this outcome. I am fine with switching counselors to a more approapriate fit and there is another agency near the school where difficult child has worked with someone before that he likes and I do think that can be helpful, but she involved the psychiatrist who has been perscribing his ADD medications and Celexa and now there is a problem. For a couple of months, difficult child has been asking to stop taking Celexa. He feels he doesn't need it and he is doing better. Again, that OD attitude is still there, but it's much better than it was and he is making gains. I will admit that I and the psychiatrists had been blowing off his request. I never dealt with it or gave him a chance, I would just kind of blow him off when he tried to talk about it. When he met the psychiatrist this week, he told him that he is not willing to take it anymore and that he has already stopped on his own. I don't find that too unusual for a teen. In fact, I have many friends with teens who struggle within the normal range for teens and they have refused to take such medications at times or refused to take ADD medications. I will say that difficult child has been pretty cooperative with medications. He has been on the Celexa for about a year and when I spoke to him about it last night he said, I have been asking but no one woudl listen, "I'm doing much better and I don't want to be on anti-depressants forever." He does struggle with anxiety more than depression, so I told him this is where the concern is. He wants a chance. I don't really think that's all that unreasonable. I guess the psychiatrist said that he considers it "non-compliance" with medications and he is no longer willing to prescibe to him. This is a problem. I feel that the counselor does not know difficult child very well (only 1 month) and causing this type of disruption in his care is a problem. The same psychiatrist is the treating psychiatrist for this other agency. The counselor reccomended and in-home program where services come to your home 2-3 days per week. I think that would be great, but he's at boarding school. In the absence of that, she said there's a behavioral IOP nearby to the shool. I looked into it and don't find it appropriate. When I read up, the mission of this program is to provide services in an effort to intervene with kids that may otherwise be hospitalized. It's 3-5 days per week for 3 hours per day. I believe the school would say he cannot be gone that much and stay enrolled. He would have a real problem completing homework and they will not make accomidations. difficult child has made substantial progress this year. He has proven that he is committed to not using ( I know it's only a period of time, but it's significant progress), his demeanor at home has been MUCH better, I just got a progress report from school and the comments were surprisingly good. YES - he remains generally unmotivated, thinks unrealistically about the future and struggles with rules that he thinks are "stupid"; ie. bed time. Although this can be somewhat normal for teens, his conviction of being right about his beliefs are strong. So - am I crazy to say that I don't think he is bad enough right now to interuppt school AGAIN. Don't forget, I removed him from school for SA at the end of last year and he spent 90 days at Wilderness. I know the school would say that he's not perfect, but he is doing OK and they feel it's important for him to finish this year out. This is a school that is HIGHLY structurred and had consistant consequences that he is not spared from. I am thinking that weekly individual counseling along with participation in the on-campus SA program which includes weekly random drug testing is a better direction for now. We get through this school year and go from there. I am a believer that if the behaviors are more in the crisis range, he must be removed from his current setting. We did that last year as his use and defiance was spiraling out of control. That is not the case right now. Once he is home, there are in-home programs around our home. If he struggles, we register as CHINS and move forward with the in-home services. Truthfully, based on his current behavior and attitude, I would be surprised if that happens. Thoughts??? [/QUOTE]
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