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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 405555" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>True, but he's going to. It just might take reinforcing this new position for a while. It would be nice if he gets it before his release but that might not happen.</p><p></p><p>As far as his ability to turn things around in the future- I know that he has intellectual capability but this is where his distorted thinking comes in. Whether or not it's really what he wants (I find that hard to believe after reading R Green) or he's just resolved himself to it or this is all he knows or doesn't have enough motivation, etc- his actions haven't seemed to indicate that he wants anything any different than a life of incarceration and this is exactly what that psychiatrist said would likely happen if difficult child was sent to Department of Juvenile Justice 2 years ago- given difficult child's way of thinking and vunerability at that age. This is why incarceration is not serving to help difficult child, it's making him worse. If I was told that by a psychiatrist who had worked 2-3 months in a psychiatric hospital- not outpatient- with difficult child prior to long term incarceration, this is where it's hard for me to accept it all as intentional choice. I mean,, I get that difficult child has choice and has made bad ones and continues to do so. But I also think there's a psychological component and a known distorted thinking and if it was forseen by experts that this approach would more than likely lead to this outcome, psychologically, for difficult child, then it leaves me torn about it all. These people in the last jurisdiction heard that directly from the psychiatrist too, in weekly treatment team conference calls,- specifically "with difficult child's particular distorted thinking, a long term commitment to Department of Juvenile Justice will more than likely have and adverse effect on him and be psychologically damaging and he might never be able to overcome it then". But the MH prof in juvie still had the audacity to tell me last summer that "now all they see in difficult child is that he's identifying too much with other incarcerated boys instead of learning his lesson from this experience". Well, DUH- I just asked her what did she expect the outcome to be after hearing that from psychiatrist and refusing to recommend what he strongly suggested for giving difficult child his best chance for rehabilitation. I realize that Residential Treatment Center (RTC) might not have worked either, but we will never know now. If I had been the one to refuse a written recommendation from a state psychiatrist, they'd had my rear in court in 2 secs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 405555, member: 3699"] True, but he's going to. It just might take reinforcing this new position for a while. It would be nice if he gets it before his release but that might not happen. As far as his ability to turn things around in the future- I know that he has intellectual capability but this is where his distorted thinking comes in. Whether or not it's really what he wants (I find that hard to believe after reading R Green) or he's just resolved himself to it or this is all he knows or doesn't have enough motivation, etc- his actions haven't seemed to indicate that he wants anything any different than a life of incarceration and this is exactly what that psychiatrist said would likely happen if difficult child was sent to Department of Juvenile Justice 2 years ago- given difficult child's way of thinking and vunerability at that age. This is why incarceration is not serving to help difficult child, it's making him worse. If I was told that by a psychiatrist who had worked 2-3 months in a psychiatric hospital- not outpatient- with difficult child prior to long term incarceration, this is where it's hard for me to accept it all as intentional choice. I mean,, I get that difficult child has choice and has made bad ones and continues to do so. But I also think there's a psychological component and a known distorted thinking and if it was forseen by experts that this approach would more than likely lead to this outcome, psychologically, for difficult child, then it leaves me torn about it all. These people in the last jurisdiction heard that directly from the psychiatrist too, in weekly treatment team conference calls,- specifically "with difficult child's particular distorted thinking, a long term commitment to Department of Juvenile Justice will more than likely have and adverse effect on him and be psychologically damaging and he might never be able to overcome it then". But the MH prof in juvie still had the audacity to tell me last summer that "now all they see in difficult child is that he's identifying too much with other incarcerated boys instead of learning his lesson from this experience". Well, DUH- I just asked her what did she expect the outcome to be after hearing that from psychiatrist and refusing to recommend what he strongly suggested for giving difficult child his best chance for rehabilitation. I realize that Residential Treatment Center (RTC) might not have worked either, but we will never know now. If I had been the one to refuse a written recommendation from a state psychiatrist, they'd had my rear in court in 2 secs. [/QUOTE]
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