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<blockquote data-quote="mstang67chic" data-source="post: 283049" data-attributes="member: 2459"><p>I think it could be a good thing but I honestly don't know how helpful it would be. </p><p></p><p>From my own personal experiences with my difficult child and the legal system, people just don't get it. I had a lot of good people trying to help us but they had no clue. The resource officer at the school assured me they would get him straightened out. His PO assured me they would straighten him out. Even the social type workers at various programs and agencies said it. They all wound up shaking their heads. But then again, difficult child had a counselor, who specialized in children, in absolute disbelief because she had never dealt with anyone of my difficult child's particular level of defiance and stubborness.</p><p></p><p>In my experience though, the juvenile system (the adult too for that matter) needs a good education on mental illness. Faced with a "defendant" with a mental illness, there just isn't the means or opportunities to help. An Residential Treatment Center (RTC) was mentioned at one point with us but there just wasn't a reptutable facility in our area that we could use. Our court ordered parenting class teacher had no idea. She assumed and told me outright that I must be doing things wrong because all of the techniques I said I used, didn't work. Once she was taken aside and appraised of our situation, she just ignored me. She had no grasp of that particular reality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mstang67chic, post: 283049, member: 2459"] I think it could be a good thing but I honestly don't know how helpful it would be. From my own personal experiences with my difficult child and the legal system, people just don't get it. I had a lot of good people trying to help us but they had no clue. The resource officer at the school assured me they would get him straightened out. His PO assured me they would straighten him out. Even the social type workers at various programs and agencies said it. They all wound up shaking their heads. But then again, difficult child had a counselor, who specialized in children, in absolute disbelief because she had never dealt with anyone of my difficult child's particular level of defiance and stubborness. In my experience though, the juvenile system (the adult too for that matter) needs a good education on mental illness. Faced with a "defendant" with a mental illness, there just isn't the means or opportunities to help. An Residential Treatment Center (RTC) was mentioned at one point with us but there just wasn't a reptutable facility in our area that we could use. Our court ordered parenting class teacher had no idea. She assumed and told me outright that I must be doing things wrong because all of the techniques I said I used, didn't work. Once she was taken aside and appraised of our situation, she just ignored me. She had no grasp of that particular reality. [/QUOTE]
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