My daughter is in the group home for 3 years now and everytime I see her she looks like shit . And it seems to me her behavior is getting bad but everytime she’s with me she is good I take her shopping , we go the mall and I don’t have problem. And now the group home is telling the psychiatrist that she always have behavior and the psychiatrist is suggesting to have her an SMI evaluation I don’t have any clue if it’s bad or what . Can anyone tell me what is the worse scenario of being evaluated for that or there’s a good outcome .

Dylan my 8 year old step son starts anger therapy August 10th.. He will go every Wednesday.. So far I have not found a spot for him for speech, OT and PT

Unfortunately we have 7-8 years of my husband giving in to him to get the behavior to stop

I don't but definitely understand what your going thru. My husband gives in to my daughter's tantrums all the time. He believes this will end it, but little does he know he's just adding fuel to the fire..he is reinforcing negative behavior, which to the kid means one thing. Attention and he gets whatever he wants. With our daughter if she wants something good behavior is expected. If there's negative behavior like screaming and hitting she doesn't get what she wants. Being a step parent myself, there have been times I have been so aggravated with his kids, but I have to nite my tongue (even in my own home) because its not my place. So I get what your dealing with. Hugs

I don't have a step child but the theory on the behavior is the same. I think as parents we give in way to often to avoid the meltdowns but in the long run that is not good for the child.

Behavior modification is never easy and children are going to rebel against it in the beginning. ABA is based on this and a skilled therapist knows how to handle children who rebel but they can do it easier than we can because they don't have the emotional attachment we do.

The longer you let bad behavior go on the worse it gets, and when the child gets older and strong it makes things even worse.

In your instance the child's bio patent should be handling this more than you, but that is a conversation you need to have with them.