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First family therapy session a disaster!
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<blockquote data-quote="CAmom" data-source="post: 50381" data-attributes="member: 1835"><p>Thanks, everyone.</p><p></p><p>I tend to agree, now that I've thought about it and spoken one-on-one with the therapist this morning, that he had his reasons for bringing up such a touchy issue.</p><p></p><p>He told me that my son tends to not want to discuss anything that makes him feel uncomfortable but that he's trying to help him to do this. </p><p></p><p>Interestingly, he also said that he feels that most of my son's issues are in the "normal range" of 17-year-old teenage behavior, i.e., in his opinion (although he pointed out that he's not a psychiatrist...) he sees no particular bipolar, ODD, or even ADD behavior. </p><p></p><p>My son called last night, as I expected he would, to apologize for his behavior and said that he would agree with and do whatever we asked of him. </p><p></p><p>The biggest relief for us is that our son has agreed that it would be better to complete high school and graduate where he is which involves him staying in the program two additional weeks to complete the summer semester at which time he'll receive his diploma. His original plan (which his program coordinator and PO reluctantly approved) was to return home and complete the fall semester here. I was VERY happy to hear that he had made that decision. </p><p></p><p>By the way, as an aside, when I was talking to the therapist, he mentioned a ten-year study which has just been completed regarding resilience in children. I can't remember the exact details, but the gist was that children/adolescents who had had four or less major bouts with adversity in their lives (abuse, trauma, divorce, etc.) still had an extremely good chance of going on to become productive, law-abiding adults in their 20's and early 30's, and the MAJOR positive factor was having a loving, supporting parent there for them through it all. This gives me GREAT hope...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CAmom, post: 50381, member: 1835"] Thanks, everyone. I tend to agree, now that I've thought about it and spoken one-on-one with the therapist this morning, that he had his reasons for bringing up such a touchy issue. He told me that my son tends to not want to discuss anything that makes him feel uncomfortable but that he's trying to help him to do this. Interestingly, he also said that he feels that most of my son's issues are in the "normal range" of 17-year-old teenage behavior, i.e., in his opinion (although he pointed out that he's not a psychiatrist...) he sees no particular bipolar, ODD, or even ADD behavior. My son called last night, as I expected he would, to apologize for his behavior and said that he would agree with and do whatever we asked of him. The biggest relief for us is that our son has agreed that it would be better to complete high school and graduate where he is which involves him staying in the program two additional weeks to complete the summer semester at which time he'll receive his diploma. His original plan (which his program coordinator and PO reluctantly approved) was to return home and complete the fall semester here. I was VERY happy to hear that he had made that decision. By the way, as an aside, when I was talking to the therapist, he mentioned a ten-year study which has just been completed regarding resilience in children. I can't remember the exact details, but the gist was that children/adolescents who had had four or less major bouts with adversity in their lives (abuse, trauma, divorce, etc.) still had an extremely good chance of going on to become productive, law-abiding adults in their 20's and early 30's, and the MAJOR positive factor was having a loving, supporting parent there for them through it all. This gives me GREAT hope... [/QUOTE]
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