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Today I am in a "don't mess with me" mood. Update on our difficult child 2 in psychiatric hospital
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<blockquote data-quote="seriously" data-source="post: 438764" data-attributes="member: 11920"><p>Yes Residential Treatment Center (RTC) is probably where we are headed fast if this continues. but we have no $$ for it and he's "fine" at school (when he's there that is) so it is unlikely to come through his IEP. I was really, really hoping we were not going to get to this point.</p><p></p><p>We have in home support services (so far that means we see the family therapist at home 1 x week and difficult child 2 sees his facilitator 1x week outside of home) that haven't been very helpful so far. but I think this has galvanized some action on that front.</p><p></p><p>spent 1 1/2 hours talking to our family therapist about the situation on Friday. THANK GOD we have someone who is experienced - both with staffing residential treatment and with serving families of juvenile offenders.</p><p></p><p>she said he is not like the juvie kids she has worked with - it's clear there's mental health issues complicating the "usual" way they would proceed with a kid from juvie. she and I talked about why we can't make our home an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and she was telling me all the ways an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) could handle him that we cannot. I think she nearly talked herself into saying he needs to go to Residential Treatment Center (RTC) not home.</p><p></p><p>But I don't think we have jumped through enough hoops yet for that. I'm not sure.</p><p></p><p>We'll see how he is tomorrow. He'll have 3 days on the Zoloft under his belt. I am considering telling the psychiatrist I've changed my mind about that - spent some time reading up on it today and there's some pretty suggestive evidence that AD's in people with bipolar lead to long term mood instability which is worse overall than trying to use just the mood stabilizers and AA's.</p><p></p><p>I'll probably have to track down the references and print them out to take over there.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the good thoughts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seriously, post: 438764, member: 11920"] Yes Residential Treatment Center (RTC) is probably where we are headed fast if this continues. but we have no $$ for it and he's "fine" at school (when he's there that is) so it is unlikely to come through his IEP. I was really, really hoping we were not going to get to this point. We have in home support services (so far that means we see the family therapist at home 1 x week and difficult child 2 sees his facilitator 1x week outside of home) that haven't been very helpful so far. but I think this has galvanized some action on that front. spent 1 1/2 hours talking to our family therapist about the situation on Friday. THANK GOD we have someone who is experienced - both with staffing residential treatment and with serving families of juvenile offenders. she said he is not like the juvie kids she has worked with - it's clear there's mental health issues complicating the "usual" way they would proceed with a kid from juvie. she and I talked about why we can't make our home an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and she was telling me all the ways an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) could handle him that we cannot. I think she nearly talked herself into saying he needs to go to Residential Treatment Center (RTC) not home. But I don't think we have jumped through enough hoops yet for that. I'm not sure. We'll see how he is tomorrow. He'll have 3 days on the Zoloft under his belt. I am considering telling the psychiatrist I've changed my mind about that - spent some time reading up on it today and there's some pretty suggestive evidence that AD's in people with bipolar lead to long term mood instability which is worse overall than trying to use just the mood stabilizers and AA's. I'll probably have to track down the references and print them out to take over there. Thanks for the good thoughts. [/QUOTE]
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