Dear Donna,
These are heart breaking situations.
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2. Parent has child in counseling outside the home.
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The child does not need counseling. That is very often total B.S. The child with bipolar needs better medications and in the right amounts. Some families are not confident when they speak to the medical doctors about medications. Sometimes it helps to take notes or keep a daily chart of
- medications
- side effects
- sleep
- mood
- behavioral problems
- life stress
Here is a chart
http://apps.cignabehavioral.com/web/...kerBipolar.pdf
Here are some others.
http://www.bpchildren.org/Charting.html
People can make their own or simply keep a daily note pad of the six things I listed.
Schools are required by law to accommodate children. I know of a case a long time ago where the state of Florida sent a child several states a way to a boarding school because Florida had no school that could help him.
Some families choose to let CPS take the child. That is a horrible decision to make but sometimes parents have to do that in order to get better medical care for the child.
You are doing good work.
M