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<blockquote data-quote="wethreepeeps" data-source="post: 16952" data-attributes="member: 3436"><p>Originally Posted By: SRL</p><p>Welcome to our site. I'm glad you found us and hope you find good help and encouragement here.</p><p></p><p>Outside of school staff and the psychiatrist who is currently involved, have any other specialists been in on his diagnoses and treatment?</p><p></p><p>Since this was an adoption at age 3 and you're seeing such extreme behaviors, have you researched the possibility of attachment disorder? There are informational links on our home page.</p><p></p><p>He also sees a neurodevelopmental pediatrician, and this is his third psychiatrist. He was in talk therapy with a psychologist for a while, and has been in PT/Occupational Therapist (OT)/and speech since he was a baby. He saw two LCSWs for therapy while he was enrolled in a mental health rehab program, but he actually got worse. When I was married I was able to provide him with much better therapy, though he didn't really respond. Now my ex is totally out of the picture and we don't have private insurance, so he only gets what Medicaid provides. He has been diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), but the psychiatrist and neuro-pediatrician say that his IQ is the reason that he's not responding to therapy of any sort, that he's just not capable of grasping the concept of cause and effect, so he doesn't understand how his actions effect others or why he should do anything other than exactly what he wishes.</p><p></p><p>There's also a possibility of Fetal Alcohol exposure, but he doesn't have the facial characteristics. But his last foster mother told me that his bio mom had a reputation in their small county as a drunk. Her other five children had been taken away already, so their was a protective order on him and he was taken into custody upon his birth and put straight into foster care, where he stayed until we adopted him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wethreepeeps, post: 16952, member: 3436"] Originally Posted By: SRL Welcome to our site. I'm glad you found us and hope you find good help and encouragement here. Outside of school staff and the psychiatrist who is currently involved, have any other specialists been in on his diagnoses and treatment? Since this was an adoption at age 3 and you're seeing such extreme behaviors, have you researched the possibility of attachment disorder? There are informational links on our home page. He also sees a neurodevelopmental pediatrician, and this is his third psychiatrist. He was in talk therapy with a psychologist for a while, and has been in PT/Occupational Therapist (OT)/and speech since he was a baby. He saw two LCSWs for therapy while he was enrolled in a mental health rehab program, but he actually got worse. When I was married I was able to provide him with much better therapy, though he didn't really respond. Now my ex is totally out of the picture and we don't have private insurance, so he only gets what Medicaid provides. He has been diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), but the psychiatrist and neuro-pediatrician say that his IQ is the reason that he's not responding to therapy of any sort, that he's just not capable of grasping the concept of cause and effect, so he doesn't understand how his actions effect others or why he should do anything other than exactly what he wishes. There's also a possibility of Fetal Alcohol exposure, but he doesn't have the facial characteristics. But his last foster mother told me that his bio mom had a reputation in their small county as a drunk. Her other five children had been taken away already, so their was a protective order on him and he was taken into custody upon his birth and put straight into foster care, where he stayed until we adopted him. [/QUOTE]
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