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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 122677" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Hi, Jennifer! Things might be a lot different where you are but I'll let you know what I've discovered here- First, there are acute psychiatric hospital's where a difficult child can go for a short period (a few days- a week) if they are an immenent danger to self or others. This kind of danger was explained to me as pretty much having a knife in their hand getting ready to use it. An emergency room has to address it if you show up with difficult child and can show that they are in this shape.</p><p> </p><p>Then there are inpatient evaluations. (They do evaluate them aat an acute facility but it's not the same.) I got the impression that this is what your sd was referring to. Anyway, here they last from 2-4 weeks, if you can find one that evaluation's kids. The big problem is that most insurance companies won't pay for them and there are rarely openings anyway. When my difficult child racked up 7 charges in less than 2 hours after staying out of trouble for one year (at 12 yo), I tried to get him in for this. I couldn't- insurance wouldn't pay and judge wouldn't order it because then county would have to pay. A hundred of people might tell you this would be the best thing- I definitely thought it would be the best thing for my difficult child. However, that won't get them in and pay for it, so if I were you, I wouldn't stress on whether or not to go this route unless the sd can tell you where to go, how to get difficult child in there, and who's going to pay for it. That will probably end that option right there.</p><p> </p><p>The third situation, of course, is long term psychiatric hospital stay, which usually doesn't apply to the young ones.</p><p> </p><p>This is just our experience here in VA-</p><p> </p><p>My suggestion would be to keep going on the track you are going.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 122677, member: 3699"] Hi, Jennifer! Things might be a lot different where you are but I'll let you know what I've discovered here- First, there are acute psychiatric hospital's where a difficult child can go for a short period (a few days- a week) if they are an immenent danger to self or others. This kind of danger was explained to me as pretty much having a knife in their hand getting ready to use it. An emergency room has to address it if you show up with difficult child and can show that they are in this shape. Then there are inpatient evaluations. (They do evaluate them aat an acute facility but it's not the same.) I got the impression that this is what your sd was referring to. Anyway, here they last from 2-4 weeks, if you can find one that evaluation's kids. The big problem is that most insurance companies won't pay for them and there are rarely openings anyway. When my difficult child racked up 7 charges in less than 2 hours after staying out of trouble for one year (at 12 yo), I tried to get him in for this. I couldn't- insurance wouldn't pay and judge wouldn't order it because then county would have to pay. A hundred of people might tell you this would be the best thing- I definitely thought it would be the best thing for my difficult child. However, that won't get them in and pay for it, so if I were you, I wouldn't stress on whether or not to go this route unless the sd can tell you where to go, how to get difficult child in there, and who's going to pay for it. That will probably end that option right there. The third situation, of course, is long term psychiatric hospital stay, which usually doesn't apply to the young ones. This is just our experience here in VA- My suggestion would be to keep going on the track you are going. [/QUOTE]
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