Chapters 1 & 2

 As I read Chapter 13, I couldn't help think of my new family. A mother raising three children who all have significant behaviors in the school setting. Two of the children's father is also involved. Yesterday, the one child went to the ER after the school had told mom to do that. However, the school called intake before even asking the mother to take the child to the ER because he was having behaviors at school. I continue to have issues in this school setting that they need to change their approach with children who are labeled as difficult. Chapter 13 confirms for me that the school continues to exacerbates the children's behaviors. I wish that staff would take the time to form good relationships with these three children. The school is hypersensitive thinking that all of this is contributed to what mom is or isn't doing. I have a suspicion that the school wants the children removed. On page 207, "since emotional regulation is the critical issue in managing the ...

 Chapter 11 talks about uncovering the traumatic memory. I have a 12 year old girl who is struggling with severe behaviors. She is unable to control her emotions and the simplest things trigger her into rage that cannot be controlled. This child has a history of trauma. Her father was physically violent to her mother, and abused methamphetamine. This child was angry at me when the father's rights were terminated. Since the last time I've worked with this family, she has been in two psychiatric medical institutes for children (PMIC) two times. She is currently in a psychiatric medical holding place awaiting a placement at another PMIC. I've tried to relay to several professionals that her lower primitive brain is taking over. Her pre-frontal cortex and her upper brain is not functioning. She also had a cyst drained of 200 ml of fluid from her pre-frontal cortex area. I don't believe that placing her in another PMIC facility will do her any good unless the treatment plan ...