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Anonymous:
This company is new.  In NO way related to WWASP and does not refer to ANY WWASP programs.  They may be able to help you.  At least they will be able to answer questions about programs.
http://www.teensatrisk.net

Anonymous:
Utah?
Thanks but no thanks. Morman's cultic behavior modification program. Just because it has nothing to do with WWASP, doesn't mean it's clean. Parents shouldn't send children away period. What is wrong with you people? Always looking for the convenient easy way out. Life isn't easy, no matter how much money you have. Try loving your kid through it. Perhaps you are the reason your kid is so screwed up and hiding them is your answer. No matter, shame on you all! Pathetic excuses for parents!!!

kezzy123:
I guess I should have given a little more detail from the start.  So here goes.  Our problems with our daughter started about a year ago.  She had always been a little defiant and disrespectful towards her mother and I but was a perfect angel towards everyone else.  She was an honor student, athlete, and hung with a good group of kids.  We then noticed that she was starting to become disrespectful towards some other adults, most notably her teachers.  Her grades started falling and her behavior worsened.   Here's a rundown of some of the things we have dealt with within the last 3-4 months:
-She has had numerous after school suspensions.  She has been kicked out of some of those because of her behavior.  Frequently mouths off to teachers and has walked out of several classes.  She is now very close to being expelled.
-5 day out of school suspension for bringing alcohol to school.  This included a 45 day suspension from extra curricular activities which got her kicked off of the school soccer team.  The school is also requiring that she attend 4 alcohol and drug abuse counseling sessions.
-Hanging with a bad crowd and had joined a gang.
-She is horribly cruel to her 8 year old brother - verbally, not physically.
-She has developed a horrible temper and frequently uses profanity towards her mother and me.  She cannot deal with not getting her way.
-Took a razor and cut over 100 marks on her arm.
-She cannot control her anger.  On several occasions she has lost her temper and violently thrown things around in her room.  This last time I had to physically restrain her because she was in such a rage for fear that she would hurt herself or someone else.
-Defies our rules.
-Lying
-Her mother and I have missed quite a bit of work to attend school meetings and mandated counseling sessions.

She has been seeing counselor but it hasn't helped.  We are now planning to have her see a psychiatrist.  However, if this doesn?t help we feel that we may have no choice but to send her to boarding school.  Our home is in turmoil.  And it is really beginning to have an adverse effect on our son as well as our marriage.

ehm:
It's a natural instinct for children to pull away from their parents around that age for developmental reasons. She sounds like she definitely needs therapy, and a good psychiatrist, probably anti-depressants. The hormone treatment was a good suggestion. The cutting is related to  intense depression. You don't treat severe depression and disorderly behavior with more stress related trauma due to isolation and incarceration. Sending her away ultimately will make her worse. She needs your support, not for you to send her away for someone else to raise. She's testing you for some reason. Why would she be doing that?

kezzy123:
The arm cutting is what prompted us to get her into counseling.  She admitted that she was depressed and the counselor put her on Zoloft.  That did seem to help some but our daughter, out of anger and defiance, dumped them down the drain recently and refuses to take them anymore.  We are not trying to have someone else raise her.  We feel that, among other things, an environment change, will benefit her.  Our goal is to get her some help and get her back.

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