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Trip to therapist was h*ll but at least difficult child went
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<blockquote data-quote="Andy" data-source="post: 441199" data-attributes="member: 5096"><p>Wow! Very nice move with the X-Box! How long of a ride from home to therapist's do you have? I would be tempted to have husband come get difficult child from home next time. As hard as it was this morning, having the therapist see him in this stage is very good. That is why difficult child didn't want to go - he was in his not so nice mood and didn't want his therapist to see him like that. I know my difficult child doesn't like his therapist to see certain ugly sides of him. I usually type up a page of stuff to submit at each visit (every 3 months now) of what has happened since the last visit that I believe difficult child needs to work on. I write in an objective way - showing no blame, etc., just stating facts of how I saw things happening. difficult child reads it on the way there and has had several times where he will take a pen/pencil and cross off stuff I have written, "therapist doesn't need to know about that. It will not happen again!" Usually just having difficult child see it in writing helps him register the importance of the events and his actions. I will usually allow that part to be off the record for that time and let him know that if it does happen again it will be put back on. There have been a few things that I have overridden and therapist gets to know about rather difficult child likes it or not. difficult child has even surprised me a few times by not asking that something get crossed off that I thought he would be upset about. We have a 1 hr drive to our therapist so I need to try extremely hard sometimes not to get difficult child to refuse. Only once has he tempted to refuse to go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy, post: 441199, member: 5096"] Wow! Very nice move with the X-Box! How long of a ride from home to therapist's do you have? I would be tempted to have husband come get difficult child from home next time. As hard as it was this morning, having the therapist see him in this stage is very good. That is why difficult child didn't want to go - he was in his not so nice mood and didn't want his therapist to see him like that. I know my difficult child doesn't like his therapist to see certain ugly sides of him. I usually type up a page of stuff to submit at each visit (every 3 months now) of what has happened since the last visit that I believe difficult child needs to work on. I write in an objective way - showing no blame, etc., just stating facts of how I saw things happening. difficult child reads it on the way there and has had several times where he will take a pen/pencil and cross off stuff I have written, "therapist doesn't need to know about that. It will not happen again!" Usually just having difficult child see it in writing helps him register the importance of the events and his actions. I will usually allow that part to be off the record for that time and let him know that if it does happen again it will be put back on. There have been a few things that I have overridden and therapist gets to know about rather difficult child likes it or not. difficult child has even surprised me a few times by not asking that something get crossed off that I thought he would be upset about. We have a 1 hr drive to our therapist so I need to try extremely hard sometimes not to get difficult child to refuse. Only once has he tempted to refuse to go. [/QUOTE]
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