hersheyb79
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Ok, his therapist was AWFUL, but the only one who I could find that would take our private insurance.
So here's how it went. We go in, DS instantly goes to the toys, like always, I sat down and told him about our week (which wasn't as bad as normal, but it involved kicking our other son in the head, getting kicked out of class, etc). Therapist doesn't engage son at all, just talks to me about what is the school doing, etc (dude, I've given you a copy of his BSP, it tells you word for word what they do for each behavior, but whatever).
Finally at one point he asks my son to "practice being a turtle" which DS refuses to do. Then he asks him (please keep in mind, my son is 5yo) "don't you want things to change, don't you want to stop getting in trouble?" DS says no.
So therapist stands up and says he's done...he can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped. Then he says "call me when he wants to change." Then he walks us out the door. My personal feeling is if therapist would quit pushing this turtle **** and actually engage with DS and try to help come up with something that works FOR HIM maybe this wouldn't be happening...but each week we go in and he tells him to be a turtle and breathe deep and DS ignores him and plays with the stupid toys.
I'm so ticked. I don't know what to do. The P-DR who's prescribing his medications won't prescribe unless he's seeing a therapist in their practice (so that he can see the therapy notes himself). So I'm basically doubly screwed because he won't be getting any help at all. Not that the medications are helping at this point, but we were working on it.
So here's how it went. We go in, DS instantly goes to the toys, like always, I sat down and told him about our week (which wasn't as bad as normal, but it involved kicking our other son in the head, getting kicked out of class, etc). Therapist doesn't engage son at all, just talks to me about what is the school doing, etc (dude, I've given you a copy of his BSP, it tells you word for word what they do for each behavior, but whatever).
Finally at one point he asks my son to "practice being a turtle" which DS refuses to do. Then he asks him (please keep in mind, my son is 5yo) "don't you want things to change, don't you want to stop getting in trouble?" DS says no.
So therapist stands up and says he's done...he can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped. Then he says "call me when he wants to change." Then he walks us out the door. My personal feeling is if therapist would quit pushing this turtle **** and actually engage with DS and try to help come up with something that works FOR HIM maybe this wouldn't be happening...but each week we go in and he tells him to be a turtle and breathe deep and DS ignores him and plays with the stupid toys.
I'm so ticked. I don't know what to do. The P-DR who's prescribing his medications won't prescribe unless he's seeing a therapist in their practice (so that he can see the therapy notes himself). So I'm basically doubly screwed because he won't be getting any help at all. Not that the medications are helping at this point, but we were working on it.