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I visited my therapist yesterday, with two teens in the house, there is usually some issue going on between one or the other to disucss. At times I feel we are somewhat dysfunctional and should have a family meeting. But at the same time I do not feel like I had the tools to facilitate a productive meeting.
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Amazingly bringing your teen home can be as stressful as sending them away. My son has been home for one month and this some of he insight I shared with a parent with at teen that is aging out in a few weeks.
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Honestly I don’t know if we will ever be prepared for him to come home and I don’t know if that is really possible. The biggest hurdle may be letting go of the past so that it does not over shadow the future holds, we all need to build trust and really value all the great progress he has made. I truly do feel that we are getting the son back that we once knew. We have all changed, I know he has too and we must embrace the change.
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Today we had family therapy with our son that is in residential treatment. Next week we are planning a home visit, the therapy session was geared around the home visit and what the expectations may be. As we got into it, it was amazing how unrealistic my sons expectations could be around the visit. Since [...]
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Most families with teens would benefit from some kind of “family therapy”. Teens will begin to isolate from their families at the age of 14. This is natural, but if the communication divide gets wider and wider, arguments begin to take place and the communication breakdown becomes hard to repair. My 14 soon to be 15 year old son spends countless hours in his room, very little time at the dinner table and talks primarily when spoken to. Sometimes he will choose to offer information but not very often. He is not confrontational and when we ask him to do something he may, sigh but usually follows through. So far my gut tells me life with him is still manageable for us.
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Milestones are being met in our son’s residential treatment care, long milestones, if I may add. The one year marker at his current facility is next week and I feel a vast difference in my son’s engagement in the program and in his life. He knows that we are talking about transition the end of [...]
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