Does My Child Need Intervention?

Determine if your child need intervention by answering three simple questions.

Do you have a wonderful child, who has started to make very negative, poor choices? Does it feel like this is not the same child as you remember just six months ago? Do you feel that an intervention is needed?

Perhaps the hardest decision a parent ever has to make is to send a child away. Whether a child needs intervention or not is very difficult to determine. After all the local helps have been exhausted (home contract with consequences, therapy, school helps, medication), parents usually have to answer these three questions:

Is the child running my life? (Is all my time consumed in worrying about where he/she is, what he/she is doing, and with whom?)
Is the family suffering from the child's behaviors? (How are all family members affected by his/her behavior? Are younger siblings learning bad habits?)
Do I have to take action now? (Can I wait till something worse happens? Is that "worse" something I cannot let happen?)

If you honestly answer each question in the positive, it is most probably time to seek intervention.