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Too good at fosterhome, they are talking about her being transferred to Residential.
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 443413" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>A good residential place will be able to help. It will be FAR more structured than any private home could be. It is a shame the foster mom is so frustrated, but I am sure you can understand how she feels. I am so sorry that she was violent with you again, I wonder how often she is violent with the foster family. in my opinion it is just not safe for her to live with a family right now, and that hopefully in an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) she can be observed closely enough for them to figure out what is going on and how to medicate her if needed and howt o help her learn to make better and safer choices.</p><p></p><p>Sorry. I know my difficult child HATED the 4 mos he spent in a psychiatric hospital (here they are called long term phosps not Residential Treatment Center (RTC), but they are the same thing) but he DID learn a lot and make far better choices. in my opinion if we had not sent him there he would NOT have turned his life around in his mid-teen years. Even he can see now that he NEEDED to be there to realize how out of line he was. </p><p></p><p>Hopefully it will be close enough that you can participate in regular therapy sessions in person. If not insist on doing them over the phone. It was a "requirement" that family come for weekly therapy at the psychiatric hospital, but we were one of the only 2 families on the ward that did it. The other families showed maybe every month or three for a single session. That alone was a big wakeup call to Wiz - that I would drive almost 2 hrs each way to do a 6 am staff meeting each and every week, again to do a family therapy session each week, and for visitation at least once a week, plus having his dad come on every single time any other relative flaked out on a promised visit. His dad went to a lot of these things except the 6am staff meetings (because work). Going to the facility this often let us have a decent idea what was going on and how to get them to do what we/he needed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 443413, member: 1233"] A good residential place will be able to help. It will be FAR more structured than any private home could be. It is a shame the foster mom is so frustrated, but I am sure you can understand how she feels. I am so sorry that she was violent with you again, I wonder how often she is violent with the foster family. in my opinion it is just not safe for her to live with a family right now, and that hopefully in an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) she can be observed closely enough for them to figure out what is going on and how to medicate her if needed and howt o help her learn to make better and safer choices. Sorry. I know my difficult child HATED the 4 mos he spent in a psychiatric hospital (here they are called long term phosps not Residential Treatment Center (RTC), but they are the same thing) but he DID learn a lot and make far better choices. in my opinion if we had not sent him there he would NOT have turned his life around in his mid-teen years. Even he can see now that he NEEDED to be there to realize how out of line he was. Hopefully it will be close enough that you can participate in regular therapy sessions in person. If not insist on doing them over the phone. It was a "requirement" that family come for weekly therapy at the psychiatric hospital, but we were one of the only 2 families on the ward that did it. The other families showed maybe every month or three for a single session. That alone was a big wakeup call to Wiz - that I would drive almost 2 hrs each way to do a 6 am staff meeting each and every week, again to do a family therapy session each week, and for visitation at least once a week, plus having his dad come on every single time any other relative flaked out on a promised visit. His dad went to a lot of these things except the 6am staff meetings (because work). Going to the facility this often let us have a decent idea what was going on and how to get them to do what we/he needed. [/QUOTE]
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