{"id":2121,"date":"2012-04-10T16:13:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T22:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhavenrtc786.e.wpstage.net\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2024-03-06T13:50:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T20:50:50","slug":"parent-to-parent-placing-your-teen-in-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/adapave-family-systems\/parent-to-parent-placing-your-teen-in-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent to Parent: Placing your Teen in Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
Placing our daughter in treatment was a very difficult process for us. We felt very alone. We were terrified of the separation and the expense. We felt we\u2019d failed<\/a>. How would we pay for it? What if it didn\u2019t work? How could we send her to live with people we\u2019d met but didn\u2019t know? Then again\u2026how could we not send her away given the severity of her struggles?<\/p>\n Many months into treatment, however, we finally came to understand at a very deep level that we\u2019d made the right choice<\/a>. We were saving our daughter\u2019s life, our family\u2019s health\u2026and maybe even our marriage. We finally had a community of other parents to normalize the process and give us some assurance that we were doing the right thing. In retrospect, we only wish we’d had that support right away–even before placing Rachel in treatment.<\/p>\n In that spirit, we\u2019ve put together a list of things to consider if you\u2019re placing\u2014or considering placing\u2014your adolescent in treatment<\/a>. Consider this your first parent to parent chat:<\/p>\n If you\u2019re like us, you are used to at least maintaining the illusion of control in most parts of your life. Also if you\u2019re like us, your teenager has done a lot to destroy that illusion! It\u2019s easy to make up for those feelings of powerlessness by trying to micromanage her treatment process and the treatment team from a distance. We did that for about the first three months. It doesn\u2019t help and it will exhaust you. Once we finally let go and got out of the way, the healing process really began\u2014about three months behind schedule! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":10565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[34,36,54,55,50,51],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18413,"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/18413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n