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Hey everybody, I'm told my difficult child is safe and stable, home tomorrow?!?!?!
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<blockquote data-quote="TerryJ2" data-source="post: 382780" data-attributes="member: 3419"><p>If the sheriff warned you that juvie is a bad place, take his word for it. He has info that your son has bio/psychiatric issues and he knows what he's talking about.</p><p> </p><p>I agree with-Sue, to put an ironclad safety plan into place.</p><p> </p><p>And I commisserate: <em>Stabilize, discharge, treat as outpatient. Lather, rinse, repeat, until the next time around when you get to.... lather rinse repeat again. I was so frustrated at about hospitalization #10, I actually asked thank you's psychiatrist (who was also the outpatient treating psychiatrist) if staff might perhaps make a demand of difficult child while he was in the hospital (say, ask him to brush his teeth or some other innocent request) so that they could see what we were actually dealing with.</em> </p><p> </p><p>I think a deliberate escalation plan in the psychiatric hospital is a very good idea. Heck, they could even get a bunch of interns in there to watch, and they'd get more out of it in regard to training.</p><p>The kids are well behaved because 1) It's a new environment and a "honeymoon period"; 2) Staff is "professional" and authoritative, particularly the doctors, as opposed to Mom and Dad, who are the scum of the earth; 3) medications are changed and supervised; 4) The routine is VERY routine because that's the staff's job and they have no extraneous items to attend to, like we parents do; 5) No one is asking these kids to do anything except an occasional 1/2 page of homework at a leisurely pace. No chores, no errands, no large assignments, no ringing phones or distracting doorbells.</p><p> </p><p>Wish I had some advice, except to agree about a safety plan.</p><p> </p><p>Won't you meet with-the soc wkr and your son b4 discharge to come up with-a family plan? That's what we did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryJ2, post: 382780, member: 3419"] If the sheriff warned you that juvie is a bad place, take his word for it. He has info that your son has bio/psychiatric issues and he knows what he's talking about. I agree with-Sue, to put an ironclad safety plan into place. And I commisserate: [I]Stabilize, discharge, treat as outpatient. Lather, rinse, repeat, until the next time around when you get to.... lather rinse repeat again. I was so frustrated at about hospitalization #10, I actually asked thank you's psychiatrist (who was also the outpatient treating psychiatrist) if staff might perhaps make a demand of difficult child while he was in the hospital (say, ask him to brush his teeth or some other innocent request) so that they could see what we were actually dealing with.[/I] I think a deliberate escalation plan in the psychiatric hospital is a very good idea. Heck, they could even get a bunch of interns in there to watch, and they'd get more out of it in regard to training. The kids are well behaved because 1) It's a new environment and a "honeymoon period"; 2) Staff is "professional" and authoritative, particularly the doctors, as opposed to Mom and Dad, who are the scum of the earth; 3) medications are changed and supervised; 4) The routine is VERY routine because that's the staff's job and they have no extraneous items to attend to, like we parents do; 5) No one is asking these kids to do anything except an occasional 1/2 page of homework at a leisurely pace. No chores, no errands, no large assignments, no ringing phones or distracting doorbells. Wish I had some advice, except to agree about a safety plan. Won't you meet with-the soc wkr and your son b4 discharge to come up with-a family plan? That's what we did. [/QUOTE]
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