bipolar children treatment
Monday, June 14th, 2010Can a Residential Treatment Center refuse treatment?
I live here in Wisconsin, and my son is in need of RTC. She is currently diagnosed bipolar disorder and substance use is, or substance abuse. There is an RTC that will address all your needs and get your way to a healthy lifestyle, but say they feel that their program would benefit my son. The RTC has, intense therapy in all aspects of their care, but I have mentioned outside the state of Illinois, and Minnesota. Installation in MN has referred me to South Dakota to send my son. How I can participate actively in my child's recovery if you are in Illinois or South Dakota? I have adequate insurance to cover the cost of the RTC, but it seems that the installation does not take a chance on my insurance. Security has informed them that there is no room bed limited, and my only cost is $ 250 deductible. I feel my child is being discriminated against in one way or another, or why can not she be treated in his home state? I have a big problem with this.
Yes, a private psychiatric (or medical) facility can deny treatment to patients whose conditions are not immediately lives at risk and refer them out. Medicine (at least in the U.S.) are not socialized (as it is in Canada and the United Kingdom, for example), and is a privilege, rather than a "Right." Your child may or may not benefit from the program. It appears that the facility is considered that his son would be better served elsewhere. When they refer out – there is a good reason. Note: his son's $ to RTC. As ugly as it sounds, that's the bottom line. Not all training centers regional benefit all children. Shouting to "discrimination" when an individual does not meet your needs RTC or facilities that meet the needs of your child is inconvenient to you is not going to help your child. "Discrimination" has not occurred only because they happen to live near an installation it is equipped to treat your child. Unfortunate? Sure. Discriminatory? Not by a long shot. If your child needs residential treatment, the probability that you will find a good next door is thin. You may have to get used to the fact that this definitely will present an inconvenience and considerable expense, so your child may the treatment you need. I encourage you to do what needs to be done. Hold the phone with the facilities to which you refer and see what you can do to prepare an intake. Ask about ways that can still be an active participant in the treatment of your child (For example, weekly family therapy sessions involving over the phone). The idea of residential treatment is to remove the child from his current environment for an extended period of time. As difficult as this may be for you to swallow, you are part of the environment "today." Even if you lived next to an RTC, they are only allowed to visit (more likely) very limited periods of time. In other words, the physical location of your child RTC makes little or no difference in the grand scheme of things.
Dr. Doris Rapp – Children’s Allergies to Food & Environment