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<blockquote data-quote="Douglas H" data-source="post: 710161" data-attributes="member: 21619"><p>JLo, I feel for you. My relationship with my 12 year old broke down last summer, and I made the difficult choice of sending him to a wilderness program for three months, followed by a therapeutic boarding school. I worked with an educational consultant to choose the boarding school. A good - preferably recommended - educational consultant can be pretty expensive: but they should be able to quickly diagnose your child's situation, and provide suggestions for available schools and programs around the country that could be a good fit. I would hesitate to recommend any specific program or school, because the fit for each school, program, and child will be different. My recommendation would be to try to identify a good consultant and maybe see if you can work with them for a minimal fee to come up with a pre-qualified list of schools and programs to explore. </p><p></p><p>Now, as for my experience with wilderness and therapeutic boarding school: mixed, but positive. Mixed, because it is extremely difficult to be separated from your child for such a long time; and more importantly, because I've only seen modest benefit for my son. Positive for three reasons: 1: It's given me the space I needed to work with my own therapist and coach to build the skills I need to be a more effective parent to a child with behavior issues. 2: My son is in a safe place where he is supported despite ongoing poor behavior. 3: My son may possibly be slightly more aware of his own behavior and slightly more inclined to behave more positively.</p><p></p><p>That is my own experience. Hope this helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Douglas H, post: 710161, member: 21619"] JLo, I feel for you. My relationship with my 12 year old broke down last summer, and I made the difficult choice of sending him to a wilderness program for three months, followed by a therapeutic boarding school. I worked with an educational consultant to choose the boarding school. A good - preferably recommended - educational consultant can be pretty expensive: but they should be able to quickly diagnose your child's situation, and provide suggestions for available schools and programs around the country that could be a good fit. I would hesitate to recommend any specific program or school, because the fit for each school, program, and child will be different. My recommendation would be to try to identify a good consultant and maybe see if you can work with them for a minimal fee to come up with a pre-qualified list of schools and programs to explore. Now, as for my experience with wilderness and therapeutic boarding school: mixed, but positive. Mixed, because it is extremely difficult to be separated from your child for such a long time; and more importantly, because I've only seen modest benefit for my son. Positive for three reasons: 1: It's given me the space I needed to work with my own therapist and coach to build the skills I need to be a more effective parent to a child with behavior issues. 2: My son is in a safe place where he is supported despite ongoing poor behavior. 3: My son may possibly be slightly more aware of his own behavior and slightly more inclined to behave more positively. That is my own experience. Hope this helps. [/QUOTE]
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