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<blockquote data-quote="JJJ" data-source="post: 542208" data-attributes="member: 1169"><p>Like Daisy, we had been encouraged to give Kanga a "fresh start" and it always ended in disaster. She honeymooned spectacularly at RTC2 and they wanted to send her home. Under the guise of wanting to be sure Kanga understood the rules, we used a family session to review them. She went ballistic complete with death threats and Residential Treatment Center (RTC) was stunned.</p><p></p><p>I know you want him home but until he can be SAFE in your home, it just sets him up for failure to bring him home too soon. </p><p></p><p>My suggestions on what needs to happen first:</p><p></p><p>1. Complete psychiatric evaluation including personality and reality testing.</p><p></p><p>2. Complete psychiatrist evaluation of his medications. </p><p></p><p>3. Weekly in home therapy, weekly group therapy, and crisis therapy all in place.</p><p></p><p>4. Complete safety plan implemented (all knives, weapons, medications locked up); high quality locks on your and easy child's bedrooms; extra adults to spend time in the home so you have two adults there as much as possible; </p><p></p><p>5. Respite lined up for at least 4 days per month.</p><p></p><p>6. Rules and consequences clearly spelled out and posted. </p><p></p><p>7. Crisis plan in place including who to call in a nonviolent psychiatric crisis as well as a meeting held with local police so they are aware that you have s violent, mentally ill child and require quick response and that you want transport to the hospital and not an arrest.</p><p></p><p>8. Training for you on proper restraint techniques.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJJ, post: 542208, member: 1169"] Like Daisy, we had been encouraged to give Kanga a "fresh start" and it always ended in disaster. She honeymooned spectacularly at RTC2 and they wanted to send her home. Under the guise of wanting to be sure Kanga understood the rules, we used a family session to review them. She went ballistic complete with death threats and Residential Treatment Center (RTC) was stunned. I know you want him home but until he can be SAFE in your home, it just sets him up for failure to bring him home too soon. My suggestions on what needs to happen first: 1. Complete psychiatric evaluation including personality and reality testing. 2. Complete psychiatrist evaluation of his medications. 3. Weekly in home therapy, weekly group therapy, and crisis therapy all in place. 4. Complete safety plan implemented (all knives, weapons, medications locked up); high quality locks on your and easy child's bedrooms; extra adults to spend time in the home so you have two adults there as much as possible; 5. Respite lined up for at least 4 days per month. 6. Rules and consequences clearly spelled out and posted. 7. Crisis plan in place including who to call in a nonviolent psychiatric crisis as well as a meeting held with local police so they are aware that you have s violent, mentally ill child and require quick response and that you want transport to the hospital and not an arrest. 8. Training for you on proper restraint techniques. [/QUOTE]
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