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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 256333" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>They don't believe in mental illness here in the Department of Juvenile Justice system, evidently. I was looking online about funding and approved providers and stuff. In Department of Juvenile Justice, they list Learning Disability (LD), behavior problems, MR, sexual offenses, substance abuse, etc- but NO mental illness. Therefore, there is NO treatment focusing on mental illness such as mood disorders- it is considered a behavior problem. Now, I can't tell you for sure where the line is with difficult child between what he's able to control or isn't and at this point, I can't say for sure that being in Department of Juvenile Justice isn't a good thing- but I can say that I'm positive he has a mood disorder and psychiatrists and tdocs believe he needs treatment for it. The state corrections facility will let him see a psychiatrist the minimal amount- maybe a few mins a month- that it takes to legally write a rx. </p><p></p><p>They talk about it being no big deal because they have a lot of kids in the state Department of Juvenile Justice system that have mental illness, and they tell me not to worry about it. My view of it is that they have so many in there because they don't acknowledge or treat it before they get in there or while they are there. It isn't a balanced approach, like a psychiatric Residential Treatment Center (RTC), where the kid gets behavior mod, plus psychiatrist care, plus family therapy. The people who work for and in the system believe in it- never mind the recidivism rates. And I can't get a single ONE of them to see anything outside of that system as a viable option. They'll just put that on my shoulders to provide when difficult child gets out and then say it's my problem if I can't do that plus work enough hours to support us on top of it. At least this is the way things were before.</p><p></p><p>Oh- in spite of the gal's insistence that all difficult child's problems were a result of me "refusing to deal with my issues", she did acknowledge that I love my son and had made a lot of effort to seek help to deal with his issues. The judge committed him though because she said at this point, she had to think about protecting the community from him. So, difficult child's needs for psychiatric care was not the judge's priority at that point. I will NEVER understand why GAL did not advocate for psychiatric Residential Treatment Center (RTC) when I had everything in hand and the judge could have put something in an order to make sure I didn't pull difficult child from it early. Even if she lost, the GAL could have advocated for it. I guess that's re-hashing and I'll get chastised again. LOL! But in my mind, people let their grievances for me cloud their judgement about what is in difficult child's best interest. I seriously can't see that opinion changing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 256333, member: 3699"] They don't believe in mental illness here in the Department of Juvenile Justice system, evidently. I was looking online about funding and approved providers and stuff. In Department of Juvenile Justice, they list Learning Disability (LD), behavior problems, MR, sexual offenses, substance abuse, etc- but NO mental illness. Therefore, there is NO treatment focusing on mental illness such as mood disorders- it is considered a behavior problem. Now, I can't tell you for sure where the line is with difficult child between what he's able to control or isn't and at this point, I can't say for sure that being in Department of Juvenile Justice isn't a good thing- but I can say that I'm positive he has a mood disorder and psychiatrists and tdocs believe he needs treatment for it. The state corrections facility will let him see a psychiatrist the minimal amount- maybe a few mins a month- that it takes to legally write a rx. They talk about it being no big deal because they have a lot of kids in the state Department of Juvenile Justice system that have mental illness, and they tell me not to worry about it. My view of it is that they have so many in there because they don't acknowledge or treat it before they get in there or while they are there. It isn't a balanced approach, like a psychiatric Residential Treatment Center (RTC), where the kid gets behavior mod, plus psychiatrist care, plus family therapy. The people who work for and in the system believe in it- never mind the recidivism rates. And I can't get a single ONE of them to see anything outside of that system as a viable option. They'll just put that on my shoulders to provide when difficult child gets out and then say it's my problem if I can't do that plus work enough hours to support us on top of it. At least this is the way things were before. Oh- in spite of the gal's insistence that all difficult child's problems were a result of me "refusing to deal with my issues", she did acknowledge that I love my son and had made a lot of effort to seek help to deal with his issues. The judge committed him though because she said at this point, she had to think about protecting the community from him. So, difficult child's needs for psychiatric care was not the judge's priority at that point. I will NEVER understand why GAL did not advocate for psychiatric Residential Treatment Center (RTC) when I had everything in hand and the judge could have put something in an order to make sure I didn't pull difficult child from it early. Even if she lost, the GAL could have advocated for it. I guess that's re-hashing and I'll get chastised again. LOL! But in my mind, people let their grievances for me cloud their judgement about what is in difficult child's best interest. I seriously can't see that opinion changing. [/QUOTE]
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