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<blockquote data-quote="recovering doormat" data-source="post: 276941" data-attributes="member: 5941"><p>I was thinking of wilderness for my difficult child 2, before he went into the diagnostic program in Pennsylvania (outside Allentown). I even went so far as to go on Facebook and find a group of kids who had been to wilderness programs and one boy from NYC wrote me back, said that the wilderness program helped him, the emotional growth school made him angrier. </p><p> </p><p>Interestingly, the therapist at the diagnostic program told us that by committing our son to their program for six weeks, we had "broken" him (his words) in much the same way as if we had sent him to a wilderness program: sent him three hours away, from home and peers and family, limited contact with outsiders (only family could visit) , three phone calls per week to home (we could call daily to speak to him, and did), and he lost his freedom, couldn't come and go as he pleased. On the plus side, he enjoyed the structure, got healthier on the fresh air and food (no junk food whatsoever, no soda, caffeine, etc., candy), and always had someone available to play basketball or xbox with.</p><p> </p><p>For us, just getting him away to detox, in a safe place, was a godsend and although there has been slippage (we did not do what they recommended, which was to transfer him right away to a long term Residential Treatment Center (RTC) to work on his recovery and emotional issues), just the shock and awe of what we did blasted his circuits so that he won't go beyond a certain point, afraid that we'll do it again. I think that is because he had not been using drugs for a very long time, he wasn't yet addicted to anything. But I expect him to test us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recovering doormat, post: 276941, member: 5941"] I was thinking of wilderness for my difficult child 2, before he went into the diagnostic program in Pennsylvania (outside Allentown). I even went so far as to go on Facebook and find a group of kids who had been to wilderness programs and one boy from NYC wrote me back, said that the wilderness program helped him, the emotional growth school made him angrier. Interestingly, the therapist at the diagnostic program told us that by committing our son to their program for six weeks, we had "broken" him (his words) in much the same way as if we had sent him to a wilderness program: sent him three hours away, from home and peers and family, limited contact with outsiders (only family could visit) , three phone calls per week to home (we could call daily to speak to him, and did), and he lost his freedom, couldn't come and go as he pleased. On the plus side, he enjoyed the structure, got healthier on the fresh air and food (no junk food whatsoever, no soda, caffeine, etc., candy), and always had someone available to play basketball or xbox with. For us, just getting him away to detox, in a safe place, was a godsend and although there has been slippage (we did not do what they recommended, which was to transfer him right away to a long term Residential Treatment Center (RTC) to work on his recovery and emotional issues), just the shock and awe of what we did blasted his circuits so that he won't go beyond a certain point, afraid that we'll do it again. I think that is because he had not been using drugs for a very long time, he wasn't yet addicted to anything. But I expect him to test us. [/QUOTE]
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