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Is there a lock-in Residential Treatment Center (RTC) for 17 yo?
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<blockquote data-quote="thomasc" data-source="post: 474581" data-attributes="member: 13098"><p>You can't kick him out until he's 18. Like everyone has explained to you, there's no helping him until he wants to help himself. I joined this forum because I was in an abusive "Lock-in" Residential Treatment Center (RTC) when I was underage and hope I can prevent someone else from making the same mistake my parents did. If the teen has to be coerced into staying, the "treatment" will also involve coercion (psychological abuse), and violence or the threat of violence will be used deter them from attempting an escape. This is extremely commonplace (I would even go far as to say the norm) in American "boot camps" and "wilderness camps". I don't know what the answer to your problems with your son is but I know that NOBODY belongs in that kind of Residential Treatment Center (RTC), and it will only make whatever problems he has now exponentially worse when he loses any remaining respect for adults and has a grudge against you for putting him through hell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thomasc, post: 474581, member: 13098"] You can't kick him out until he's 18. Like everyone has explained to you, there's no helping him until he wants to help himself. I joined this forum because I was in an abusive "Lock-in" Residential Treatment Center (RTC) when I was underage and hope I can prevent someone else from making the same mistake my parents did. If the teen has to be coerced into staying, the "treatment" will also involve coercion (psychological abuse), and violence or the threat of violence will be used deter them from attempting an escape. This is extremely commonplace (I would even go far as to say the norm) in American "boot camps" and "wilderness camps". I don't know what the answer to your problems with your son is but I know that NOBODY belongs in that kind of Residential Treatment Center (RTC), and it will only make whatever problems he has now exponentially worse when he loses any remaining respect for adults and has a grudge against you for putting him through hell. [/QUOTE]
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