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<blockquote data-quote="PorcupineWhisperer" data-source="post: 137579" data-attributes="member: 62"><p>TL: You are on the money with the description of the shelter environment. The things that are 'OK' in the shelter would never have been tolerated when he was in the Residential Treatment Center (RTC). For example, when Junior started public school, they reported that he was sleeping through his morning classes. When they were talking about changing his medications to help with this, I pointed out that he had been stable on the same medication combo for almost a year (and of course no sleeping in class at the Residential Treatment Center (RTC)). I told them that the only thing that changed was that he was now living in a different building. I asked them to check what time he was going to bed. They checked the staff logs and they indicated that he was often up past midnight playing his DS. At the shelter they can't 'make' the kids put things away, they can only ask them. They did change his medications and guess what he is still sleeping in class (most recently sleeping through the states' mandatory achievement testing).</p><p>I do agree about skills being transfered to home and continuity of care. In Junior's case because I was able to continue to see him therapeutically, hopefully he can continue to work on the skills that he was starting to utilize in the Residential Treatment Center (RTC). I think the treatment team defers to me on many issues (like home visits) - mainly I think because if something goes bad there's a person to point the fingers at... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PorcupineWhisperer, post: 137579, member: 62"] TL: You are on the money with the description of the shelter environment. The things that are 'OK' in the shelter would never have been tolerated when he was in the Residential Treatment Center (RTC). For example, when Junior started public school, they reported that he was sleeping through his morning classes. When they were talking about changing his medications to help with this, I pointed out that he had been stable on the same medication combo for almost a year (and of course no sleeping in class at the Residential Treatment Center (RTC)). I told them that the only thing that changed was that he was now living in a different building. I asked them to check what time he was going to bed. They checked the staff logs and they indicated that he was often up past midnight playing his DS. At the shelter they can't 'make' the kids put things away, they can only ask them. They did change his medications and guess what he is still sleeping in class (most recently sleeping through the states' mandatory achievement testing). I do agree about skills being transfered to home and continuity of care. In Junior's case because I was able to continue to see him therapeutically, hopefully he can continue to work on the skills that he was starting to utilize in the Residential Treatment Center (RTC). I think the treatment team defers to me on many issues (like home visits) - mainly I think because if something goes bad there's a person to point the fingers at... :) [/QUOTE]
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