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<blockquote data-quote="Andy" data-source="post: 352533" data-attributes="member: 5096"><p>Not sure that I know what "Talk Therapy" is. therapist spends most of the hour talking with difficult child and then I come in for about 10/15 minutes to go over issues I need to know - mainly things that I need to be aware of to help difficult child use his tools. Whatever he is doing is working. therapist has worked with difficult child from the very beginning following difficult child's psychiatric hospital stay. He helped difficult child strengthen his tools to deal with his anxiety.</p><p> </p><p>We have known about the perfectionistic characteristics but have not focused on it yet because difficult child was not at the point to do so. In other words, these last few years had us working with more physical behaviors as well as the frightening feelings of anxiety. Now that the perfectionism is the primary obstical getting in the way of daily living, he is ready to KNOW that what is being taught will have a purpose. Hard to explain, but in a nut shell, difficult child will not appreciate something that he does not feel will be helpful at the time he hears it. Like teaching that you should use a bandaide when you have an injury that causes bleeding. Good to know but I may never need to apply it - however, once I start bleeding, it makes more sense about the bandaide. Now that difficult child is "bleeding", the tools he will be given will make more sense to him. They will no longer be "For Your Information, when you feel like this in the future........"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy, post: 352533, member: 5096"] Not sure that I know what "Talk Therapy" is. therapist spends most of the hour talking with difficult child and then I come in for about 10/15 minutes to go over issues I need to know - mainly things that I need to be aware of to help difficult child use his tools. Whatever he is doing is working. therapist has worked with difficult child from the very beginning following difficult child's psychiatric hospital stay. He helped difficult child strengthen his tools to deal with his anxiety. We have known about the perfectionistic characteristics but have not focused on it yet because difficult child was not at the point to do so. In other words, these last few years had us working with more physical behaviors as well as the frightening feelings of anxiety. Now that the perfectionism is the primary obstical getting in the way of daily living, he is ready to KNOW that what is being taught will have a purpose. Hard to explain, but in a nut shell, difficult child will not appreciate something that he does not feel will be helpful at the time he hears it. Like teaching that you should use a bandaide when you have an injury that causes bleeding. Good to know but I may never need to apply it - however, once I start bleeding, it makes more sense about the bandaide. Now that difficult child is "bleeding", the tools he will be given will make more sense to him. They will no longer be "For Your Information, when you feel like this in the future........" [/QUOTE]
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