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<blockquote data-quote="confuzzled" data-source="post: 482161" data-attributes="member: 8831"><p>Really great question!</p><p></p><p></p><p>mine is on 2+ years of therapy too....and honestly, i question whether we should keep going *every week*. </p><p></p><p>i honestly dont know if my 12 year old is really developmentally able to take much away from it. i DO think its good to have someone besides family to talk to, and i guess thats really my motivation for continuing, along, of course with my overwhelming guilt for not seeing a problem sooner. i like and respect her therapist, but i dont find she's too helpful with reccomendations or opinions or anything that might give *me* a better handle on my kid. (surely, she MUST have an <em>opinion</em> or two as to diagnosis, sx, tx options, whatever!--i'm not expecting her to rewrite the DSM for us!).</p><p></p><p>i DID just tell ours that we realllly need to decide on a strong focus and make a decision as to what is treatable and what is just "her"...i feel like we rewrite the same goals every 6 weeks with little tangible progress. i do sometimes think we are addressing things that arent really fixable...i highly doubt mine ever suddenly become a social butterfly, no matter HOW much therapy she gets. and honestly, i've decided its *not wrong* to be a loner, and it pretty much IS a part of her, more that a fixable symptom of something. and truthfully, mine picks up on all this "fixing" and it has impacted her self esteem in some ways, so sometimes i actually think maybe we are doing her a disservice with some of the stuff we do.</p><p></p><p>but it is what it is. ;-)</p><p></p><p>i felt my money was much better spent on theraputic interventions like Occupational Therapist (OT) and SpT...we were very fortunate to have therapists that had very specific goals that were truly measurable.</p><p></p><p>i didnt, and don't, expect some miracle quick fix from therapy. but i do have a hard time dragging both of us to weekly therapy without really seeing some kind of progress. </p><p></p><p>just our experience--take what helps you, leave the rest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="confuzzled, post: 482161, member: 8831"] Really great question! mine is on 2+ years of therapy too....and honestly, i question whether we should keep going *every week*. i honestly dont know if my 12 year old is really developmentally able to take much away from it. i DO think its good to have someone besides family to talk to, and i guess thats really my motivation for continuing, along, of course with my overwhelming guilt for not seeing a problem sooner. i like and respect her therapist, but i dont find she's too helpful with reccomendations or opinions or anything that might give *me* a better handle on my kid. (surely, she MUST have an [I]opinion[/I] or two as to diagnosis, sx, tx options, whatever!--i'm not expecting her to rewrite the DSM for us!). i DID just tell ours that we realllly need to decide on a strong focus and make a decision as to what is treatable and what is just "her"...i feel like we rewrite the same goals every 6 weeks with little tangible progress. i do sometimes think we are addressing things that arent really fixable...i highly doubt mine ever suddenly become a social butterfly, no matter HOW much therapy she gets. and honestly, i've decided its *not wrong* to be a loner, and it pretty much IS a part of her, more that a fixable symptom of something. and truthfully, mine picks up on all this "fixing" and it has impacted her self esteem in some ways, so sometimes i actually think maybe we are doing her a disservice with some of the stuff we do. but it is what it is. ;-) i felt my money was much better spent on theraputic interventions like Occupational Therapist (OT) and SpT...we were very fortunate to have therapists that had very specific goals that were truly measurable. i didnt, and don't, expect some miracle quick fix from therapy. but i do have a hard time dragging both of us to weekly therapy without really seeing some kind of progress. just our experience--take what helps you, leave the rest. [/QUOTE]
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