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<blockquote data-quote="Farmwife" data-source="post: 387221" data-attributes="member: 8617"><p>Sounds like you may need to speak to the doctor on the side or take control of a session. While praise is important if it gets out of hand and the doctor gets sucked into a place where they are not effectively addressing your needs they pretty much render themselves useless. Encouraging good behavior is one thing, pretending a kid who needs counseling does not need to go over the bad stuff is a whole different matter.</p><p> </p><p>My difficult child was turned off by having to deal with the bad stuff so any family sessions were non productive. In that sense difficult child couldn't process his own dysfunction because he just shut down as soon as we were involved. If it is a new doctor they sometimes allow some room for a difficult child to gain trust before they bombard them with the real session style. Too much too soon and difficult child may decide this is just another adult talking head to be ignored or that doctor is only on your side.</p><p> </p><p>Either way your doctor needs to have a clear picture of your needs, a clear plan even if it takes time and should be able to explain it to you both ahead of time and illustrate it before too many sessions go by wasted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farmwife, post: 387221, member: 8617"] Sounds like you may need to speak to the doctor on the side or take control of a session. While praise is important if it gets out of hand and the doctor gets sucked into a place where they are not effectively addressing your needs they pretty much render themselves useless. Encouraging good behavior is one thing, pretending a kid who needs counseling does not need to go over the bad stuff is a whole different matter. My difficult child was turned off by having to deal with the bad stuff so any family sessions were non productive. In that sense difficult child couldn't process his own dysfunction because he just shut down as soon as we were involved. If it is a new doctor they sometimes allow some room for a difficult child to gain trust before they bombard them with the real session style. Too much too soon and difficult child may decide this is just another adult talking head to be ignored or that doctor is only on your side. Either way your doctor needs to have a clear picture of your needs, a clear plan even if it takes time and should be able to explain it to you both ahead of time and illustrate it before too many sessions go by wasted. [/QUOTE]
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