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<blockquote data-quote="habibi" data-source="post: 12333" data-attributes="member: 1134"><p>Susan,</p><p>I have to throw some water on all the enthusiasm about therapeutic boarding schools. Before you even THINK about this possibility, you need to ask yourself some questions.</p><p>On the 22nd you entered your first post about your son and received some excellent advice. All of the advice you were given involved making your home and vehicles more secure and seeking LOCAL professional help. Have you done any of these? Have you exhausted ALL local mental health resources to help your son? If not, do not send your son away to a facility. These places should only be used as an absolute last resort, after the parents and guardians have completely squeezed dry their community counselors, therapists and psychiatrists for help. I know what I'm talking about. We had to send one of our children to 3 different out-of-state facilities in 4 years. This was after being treated by numerous LOCAL therapists and psychiatrists, family therapy and 5 in-patient stays in a local psychiatric hospital over the course of 9 years. Despite hiring an ed consultant and doing a ton of research on our own, the psychiatric care our daughter received at these places was mediocre and the education was downright substandard. We wound up spending around $250,000 dollars over the course of 4 years. This included tuition, therapist and psychiatrists fees, airplane fares to and from, rental cars, hotels, meals, etc. etc.</p><p>In hindsight, we have come to the conclusion that we paid an exorbitant fee to keep our daughter physically restrained, fed, housed and barely educated. Yes, she was safe and unable to harm herself or others during those stays, but she gained very little else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="habibi, post: 12333, member: 1134"] Susan, I have to throw some water on all the enthusiasm about therapeutic boarding schools. Before you even THINK about this possibility, you need to ask yourself some questions. On the 22nd you entered your first post about your son and received some excellent advice. All of the advice you were given involved making your home and vehicles more secure and seeking LOCAL professional help. Have you done any of these? Have you exhausted ALL local mental health resources to help your son? If not, do not send your son away to a facility. These places should only be used as an absolute last resort, after the parents and guardians have completely squeezed dry their community counselors, therapists and psychiatrists for help. I know what I'm talking about. We had to send one of our children to 3 different out-of-state facilities in 4 years. This was after being treated by numerous LOCAL therapists and psychiatrists, family therapy and 5 in-patient stays in a local psychiatric hospital over the course of 9 years. Despite hiring an ed consultant and doing a ton of research on our own, the psychiatric care our daughter received at these places was mediocre and the education was downright substandard. We wound up spending around $250,000 dollars over the course of 4 years. This included tuition, therapist and psychiatrists fees, airplane fares to and from, rental cars, hotels, meals, etc. etc. In hindsight, we have come to the conclusion that we paid an exorbitant fee to keep our daughter physically restrained, fed, housed and barely educated. Yes, she was safe and unable to harm herself or others during those stays, but she gained very little else. [/QUOTE]
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