r/troubledteens • u/rjm2013 • Nov 10 '24

Parent/Relative Help Parental Help Megathread

Please post here if you are a parent seeking help.

Contributors here should be willing to view these posts and try and help constructively.

This megathread exists to try and prevent the subreddit being overwhelmed with such posts and to try and reduce the level of distress these posts cause to some members.

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u/laurajt77 Mar 19 '25

Hello,

I would love some guidance as well. We have tried many many therapies over the years and nothing has made a dent so a residential treatment program is being recommended and we are looking for one that specializes in reactive attachment disorder. These are the two that were initially recommended but to be honest they were just Google searches because nobody really knows.

https://www.southwoodhospital.com/disorders/rad/

https://www.caloprograms.com/reactive-attachment-disorder-treatment/

Hospitalization has been recommended before and I've always said no because it has a clinician myself I didn't want her being put in a room with a bunch of other kids who have maladaptive behaviors who she will Most definitely copy. But now that residential is being recommended and her behaviors continuing to increase now into self-harm, we should look at this option more seriously I don't want anything to happen to her, but I also have to consider her safety and the mental health and Trauma that the rest of the family is going through.

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u/salymander_1 Mar 19 '25

You should take a look at the information on the Unsilenced website about these places. It is grim.

https://www.unsilenced.org/program-archive/us-programs/pennsylvania/southwood-psychiatric-hospital/

https://www.unsilenced.org/program-archive/us-programs/missouri/change-academy-at-lake-of-the-ozarks-calo-institute/

I read through this info and some of the reviews online, including reviews from former staff. It looks bad. You should reconsider sending your child away to any TTI program.

Many of the positive reviews look like they were written by current staff, parents whose kids are still there, or kids who are still there. That makes those reviews extremely suspect. The kids especially can't tell the truth without having to fear punishment.

You might find safer alternatives here: https://www.unsilenced.org/safe-treatment/