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Tag Archives: psych

all the lies

According to David, every one is lying.  The nurse staff who documented everything that came out of his mouth to the hospital social worker who made the complaint to CPS to the CPS worker who “asked if I wanted to live with an aunt.” David claims that he never told them anything about me restraining him on the pavement.  He doesn’t know where that came from. He also claims that it wasn’t his idea to stay with his aunt. The sad reality?  Even the nursing staff knows and understands that he tells lies.  How come the hospital social worker and the CPS worker can’t see the same? We have three social workers directly as members of David’s team, plus a psychiatrist, a psychologist and his education team.  One would think that the people should listen to the person who knows David the best from outside the family.  Our Care Coordinator

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Tags: CPS, help, psych, referral ·

Escalating behaviors

Yesterday afternoon about 1:00 pm, I was at David’s school to drop off his medications for next week.  School is 60 miles from home.  While there, the assistant principal pulled me aside to talk to me about David’s escalating behaviors at school.  At the time he was serving in school suspension for behaviors relating to an incident in physical education. We pulled David into the office to talk about the last couple of days of behavior, and he claimed that nearly everyone who accused him of something was lying, to include teachers and a few staff.  David was then returned to in school suspension where upon he refused to listen and follow the rule of one desk interval between students.  (so that there was at least a desk separating each student serving in school suspension.)  At this point the decision was made to send David home on out of school

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Tags: behavior, harm, psych, threat ·

visited my son tonight

I went to see my son tonight. He wants to know when he can come home from the hospital.  Nothing about the other night.  When I asked him why he wants to come home, it was all about missing the trip to Bismarck with his mentor that he does once a week. Nothing about the family.  No regrets about his behaviors.  Just “when can I come home?” I told him that when he starts being honest with himself and the staff there about what is going on, then I would think about it. This afternoon I attended the “Informal Adjustment Conference” to let them know where David is.  Talked to the guy for about half an hour about what we have been dealing with. Last night, the psychiatrist recommended placing David in a detention center until the bed is available.  Today, I relayed that request to the gentleman at the

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Tags: crime, hospital, incident, psych, psychiatry ·

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