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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 680748" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>I vote for conditions or challenges, rather than concerns. I balk at two adjectives only *developmental and mental without the noun they describe.</p><p></p><p>I agree with Kathy. I think almost all of our kids on this forum have a diagnosis of some mental illness, or have had. To me, putting the mental illness part is not definitive. It is the developmental issues that render our kids different from many of the kids, and/or the trauma which they have experienced. Trauma is thought to affect the brain of children so pervasively that some are proposing a new diagnostic category.</p><p></p><p>I think we are saying: Parenting adult children with complex developmental challenges.</p><p></p><p><u>Developmental Challenges</u>: Parenting teen and adult children with complex developmental issues.</p><p></p><p>By using the descriptor complex, we are suggesting that there may be issues of conduct, mental illness, substance use, and developmental difference or trauma. By using the descriptor complex we also indicate we may be over our head, sinking rapidly *joke.</p><p></p><p>Our kids are challenged and so are we. To develop as we must to support them and to sustain and grow ourselves.</p><p></p><p>COPA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 680748, member: 18958"] I vote for conditions or challenges, rather than concerns. I balk at two adjectives only *developmental and mental without the noun they describe. I agree with Kathy. I think almost all of our kids on this forum have a diagnosis of some mental illness, or have had. To me, putting the mental illness part is not definitive. It is the developmental issues that render our kids different from many of the kids, and/or the trauma which they have experienced. Trauma is thought to affect the brain of children so pervasively that some are proposing a new diagnostic category. I think we are saying: Parenting adult children with complex developmental challenges. [U]Developmental Challenges[/U]: Parenting teen and adult children with complex developmental issues. By using the descriptor complex, we are suggesting that there may be issues of conduct, mental illness, substance use, and developmental difference or trauma. By using the descriptor complex we also indicate we may be over our head, sinking rapidly *joke. Our kids are challenged and so are we. To develop as we must to support them and to sustain and grow ourselves. COPA [/QUOTE]
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