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How to Get Them into an Residential Treatment Center (RTC)?
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<blockquote data-quote="Janna" data-source="post: 240929" data-attributes="member: 2737"><p>I sure wish Residential Treatment Center (RTC) was a long, intensive therapy session. Maybe it would have been worth something to us then.</p><p> </p><p>Residential Treatment Center (RTC), in my humble opinion, is fun. Our experience was that they put D into a residence with 8 or 9 other children (all sorts of diagnosis'es and issues). The staff that work in the residence with the kiddos have no particular experience or degrees in anything. In fact, alot of them were kids coming out of college, or in college working toward whatever. There was a therapist that handled all those 8 or 9 children, plus 8 or 9 children in another residence, and she spent, ooh, about 30 mins per week with D, and an additional 30 minutes with him in her office and I on speaker phone doing "family therapy" (this, to me, was a joke - it's more like "so what are you doing wrong as a parent to have your child here, and let's talk behavior modification - when we didn't need that). Then, of course, we would hope and pray that the therapist with her 18 children would make sure that all the pertinent information regarding D would get to the psychiatrist, who saw my son a whole, whopping 10 minutes, once per month. Much to no surprise of my own, most of the information never got to him, and even if he did - he handled 50 something kids and probably wouldn't have paid too much attention to it anyway.</p><p> </p><p>They did have art therapy, horticultural therapy, pet and equine therapy. What did they do for the "therapy" part? Nothing LOL! "Be nice to the kitty, D". And, he would....so, what did they work on? Nothing. Art therapy was fun. And, he got to make some stone/gem thing for our garden, which was cute.</p><p> </p><p>Did he get anything out of it? Yeah - he learned what a stress ball is. I have them, they're underneath the furniture, somewhere.</p><p> </p><p>Oh - the way he got in, was with a referral from our local MH/MR (Mental Health/Mental Retardation) agency and a referral from the psychiatrist. He is also on child disability through SSI, which gets him state insurance, which paid for everything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janna, post: 240929, member: 2737"] I sure wish Residential Treatment Center (RTC) was a long, intensive therapy session. Maybe it would have been worth something to us then. Residential Treatment Center (RTC), in my humble opinion, is fun. Our experience was that they put D into a residence with 8 or 9 other children (all sorts of diagnosis'es and issues). The staff that work in the residence with the kiddos have no particular experience or degrees in anything. In fact, alot of them were kids coming out of college, or in college working toward whatever. There was a therapist that handled all those 8 or 9 children, plus 8 or 9 children in another residence, and she spent, ooh, about 30 mins per week with D, and an additional 30 minutes with him in her office and I on speaker phone doing "family therapy" (this, to me, was a joke - it's more like "so what are you doing wrong as a parent to have your child here, and let's talk behavior modification - when we didn't need that). Then, of course, we would hope and pray that the therapist with her 18 children would make sure that all the pertinent information regarding D would get to the psychiatrist, who saw my son a whole, whopping 10 minutes, once per month. Much to no surprise of my own, most of the information never got to him, and even if he did - he handled 50 something kids and probably wouldn't have paid too much attention to it anyway. They did have art therapy, horticultural therapy, pet and equine therapy. What did they do for the "therapy" part? Nothing LOL! "Be nice to the kitty, D". And, he would....so, what did they work on? Nothing. Art therapy was fun. And, he got to make some stone/gem thing for our garden, which was cute. Did he get anything out of it? Yeah - he learned what a stress ball is. I have them, they're underneath the furniture, somewhere. Oh - the way he got in, was with a referral from our local MH/MR (Mental Health/Mental Retardation) agency and a referral from the psychiatrist. He is also on child disability through SSI, which gets him state insurance, which paid for everything. [/QUOTE]
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