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He might have blown his last chance.
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 301341" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>This might not be the popular opinion, but from our short trial with mst, it was nothing like what it claims to be. Now, I think it is ridulous to think that it will change a kid unless the problem is that the family never had any regular, structured rules and cosequences. That really isn't the problem with most of our difficult child's so mst won't "cure" it, in my humble opinion. I realize that it claims to be a tried and true "therapy" but I found it to be nothing more than a contract and in-home parenting classes. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, I'm not sure what you mean by your difficult child having a 2-year commitment or what that involves in your state. My 14yo is in our state Department of Juvenile Justice right now and has been since winter. I tried to get him into a psychiatric Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and you might want to advocate for that. I couldn't get anyone to advocate for it for my son, even though several mental health profs recommended it for him, so he was committed to state Department of Juvenile Justice. He has gotten into a facility that is safe, so far, and not one where kids are abused or mistreated. He goes to a school all day long and is kept on par educationally. He has a therapist and a behavior counselor (2 seperate people). He sees a psychiatrist although that's a little lame there.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, it's not nearly as bad as I had feared but that's mmostly because of the facility he got into. If he had been considered violent and older, it could have been more like an adult prison, which was my worst nightmare. My son is excelling where he is and behaving very well. I know this is painful and it's hard to accept that things have gotten this bad, but it's not always as bad as we fear.</p><p></p><p>Hang in there-</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 301341, member: 3699"] This might not be the popular opinion, but from our short trial with mst, it was nothing like what it claims to be. Now, I think it is ridulous to think that it will change a kid unless the problem is that the family never had any regular, structured rules and cosequences. That really isn't the problem with most of our difficult child's so mst won't "cure" it, in my humble opinion. I realize that it claims to be a tried and true "therapy" but I found it to be nothing more than a contract and in-home parenting classes. Anyway, I'm not sure what you mean by your difficult child having a 2-year commitment or what that involves in your state. My 14yo is in our state Department of Juvenile Justice right now and has been since winter. I tried to get him into a psychiatric Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and you might want to advocate for that. I couldn't get anyone to advocate for it for my son, even though several mental health profs recommended it for him, so he was committed to state Department of Juvenile Justice. He has gotten into a facility that is safe, so far, and not one where kids are abused or mistreated. He goes to a school all day long and is kept on par educationally. He has a therapist and a behavior counselor (2 seperate people). He sees a psychiatrist although that's a little lame there. Anyway, it's not nearly as bad as I had feared but that's mmostly because of the facility he got into. If he had been considered violent and older, it could have been more like an adult prison, which was my worst nightmare. My son is excelling where he is and behaving very well. I know this is painful and it's hard to accept that things have gotten this bad, but it's not always as bad as we fear. Hang in there- [/QUOTE]
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