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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 542868" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Just my 2 cents but I don't see how you could possibly get any accurate diagnosis on him right now. There is just too much bad attitude mixed with hormones (typical teen) and then whatever else- anxiety, bad dysfunctional habits, low self-esteem, whatever. I know that's what you're trying to find a solution for, but I'm not sure that's possible and I'm reminded of Dr. S telling me that "we" should be extremely careful not to get a troubled adolescent labeled with something they could end up stuck with for the rest of their life. That doesn't mean I have better advice for you than what you're doing and I hope this isn't sounding like a post that's meant to pop a bubble, but just based on seeing how much my son has changed (and I'm sure he wasn't cured by Department of Juvenile Justice), I am sooo thankful I didn't get hung up on ANY diagnosis. That isn't to say a diagnosis vouldn't have been applicable to him- or still couldn't- but sometimes that can take on a life of it's own and if it's not the right course, OMG- where would it leave an adolesscent or young adult? Particularly if they are under the control of a PO?</p><p></p><p>Your son's MMPI should have been the edition written for adolescents. I don't see how anyone could cast the results in stone, for several reasons that I won't get into. If he'd already been diagnosis'd with something- say a sexual offender- and the sd had constant complaints about sexual offenses from him and this MMPI revealed a serious sexual deviance pattern, then I could see giving weight to that being the problem. That was just a hypothetical used as example - not an insuation at all. I just don't see any clear diagnosis jumping out in your son's case. But again, I don't live with him and only know what I read here- and that doesn't mean there isn't a diagnosis there, just that I can't see it being that simple as taking any 'test' or evaluation and getting an answer. And in hindsight, if someone told me there had been one for my son, I wouldn't have trusted it anymore than I'd trust an online test for something.</p><p></p><p>ETA:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This was my son 3 years ago and 2 years ago and I dare say it's at least half of those sitting in Department of Juvenile Justice and half teen boys not in Department of Juvenile Justice. FWTW- in my humble opinion- that isn't a clear diagnosis for anything except it's a red flag that trouble is ahead unless it changes, one way or another.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 542868, member: 3699"] Just my 2 cents but I don't see how you could possibly get any accurate diagnosis on him right now. There is just too much bad attitude mixed with hormones (typical teen) and then whatever else- anxiety, bad dysfunctional habits, low self-esteem, whatever. I know that's what you're trying to find a solution for, but I'm not sure that's possible and I'm reminded of Dr. S telling me that "we" should be extremely careful not to get a troubled adolescent labeled with something they could end up stuck with for the rest of their life. That doesn't mean I have better advice for you than what you're doing and I hope this isn't sounding like a post that's meant to pop a bubble, but just based on seeing how much my son has changed (and I'm sure he wasn't cured by Department of Juvenile Justice), I am sooo thankful I didn't get hung up on ANY diagnosis. That isn't to say a diagnosis vouldn't have been applicable to him- or still couldn't- but sometimes that can take on a life of it's own and if it's not the right course, OMG- where would it leave an adolesscent or young adult? Particularly if they are under the control of a PO? Your son's MMPI should have been the edition written for adolescents. I don't see how anyone could cast the results in stone, for several reasons that I won't get into. If he'd already been diagnosis'd with something- say a sexual offender- and the sd had constant complaints about sexual offenses from him and this MMPI revealed a serious sexual deviance pattern, then I could see giving weight to that being the problem. That was just a hypothetical used as example - not an insuation at all. I just don't see any clear diagnosis jumping out in your son's case. But again, I don't live with him and only know what I read here- and that doesn't mean there isn't a diagnosis there, just that I can't see it being that simple as taking any 'test' or evaluation and getting an answer. And in hindsight, if someone told me there had been one for my son, I wouldn't have trusted it anymore than I'd trust an online test for something. ETA: [I][/I] This was my son 3 years ago and 2 years ago and I dare say it's at least half of those sitting in Department of Juvenile Justice and half teen boys not in Department of Juvenile Justice. FWTW- in my humble opinion- that isn't a clear diagnosis for anything except it's a red flag that trouble is ahead unless it changes, one way or another. [/QUOTE]
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