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<blockquote data-quote="1815ak" data-source="post: 497076" data-attributes="member: 13580"><p>My partner and I adopted three siblings who had been exposed to extensive trauma and the two oldest g age 9 and b aged 7 have sexaul predatory behaviors. They also have been fiat osiers with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) so we have and continue to struggle with the decision to send them to a residential treatment or trying to keep them home and work with the resources in our community. Two years ago when the children were still in foster care their social worker tried to send our daughter to a treatment center out of state. We fought and got th state to hire a specialist to come and work with both our children. He is an attachment specialist but he worked with the kids therapists to develop a new treatment model including having the kids see one therapist weekly just on the sexual reactivity issues. The have been using a curriculum called Pathways to Recovery. It has been a year and half and our daughter has made huge growth. Both our children attend therapy twice a week and one of those sessions my partner and I attend with each of them. It has been a huge time commitment with therapy sessions for just two of our kids being 4 days a week. However, I am certain that had we agreed to send her to residential tx then our relationship and her ability to bond with us would have been destroyed.</p><p>Our son has een working on the same program however he continues tom have serious issues and despite having lived withnus for almost five years continues to display serious attachment and bonding issues as well as aggressive sexualized behaviors towards other children. He has had a serious recent incident and his dr is recommending residential tx for him now. We are not sure what to do. What more can we do here in our community but even if we agreed to send him where would we send him. He is only 7 yes old and even if we could find a placemthat specialized in sexual behaviors in young children how would it impact his bonding and attachment with us.</p><p>I do believe that there are other options available to your daughter because of her age. I would suggest looking into treatment options and if residential is something you decide on make sure the facility specializes in her issues and is not a facility that "treats" many different issues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1815ak, post: 497076, member: 13580"] My partner and I adopted three siblings who had been exposed to extensive trauma and the two oldest g age 9 and b aged 7 have sexaul predatory behaviors. They also have been fiat osiers with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) so we have and continue to struggle with the decision to send them to a residential treatment or trying to keep them home and work with the resources in our community. Two years ago when the children were still in foster care their social worker tried to send our daughter to a treatment center out of state. We fought and got th state to hire a specialist to come and work with both our children. He is an attachment specialist but he worked with the kids therapists to develop a new treatment model including having the kids see one therapist weekly just on the sexual reactivity issues. The have been using a curriculum called Pathways to Recovery. It has been a year and half and our daughter has made huge growth. Both our children attend therapy twice a week and one of those sessions my partner and I attend with each of them. It has been a huge time commitment with therapy sessions for just two of our kids being 4 days a week. However, I am certain that had we agreed to send her to residential tx then our relationship and her ability to bond with us would have been destroyed. Our son has een working on the same program however he continues tom have serious issues and despite having lived withnus for almost five years continues to display serious attachment and bonding issues as well as aggressive sexualized behaviors towards other children. He has had a serious recent incident and his dr is recommending residential tx for him now. We are not sure what to do. What more can we do here in our community but even if we agreed to send him where would we send him. He is only 7 yes old and even if we could find a placemthat specialized in sexual behaviors in young children how would it impact his bonding and attachment with us. I do believe that there are other options available to your daughter because of her age. I would suggest looking into treatment options and if residential is something you decide on make sure the facility specializes in her issues and is not a facility that "treats" many different issues. [/QUOTE]
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