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mrsLesGrossman · August 2009

Please tell me about your threat to society children. Are they ED or just rowdy? Do you do counseling for divorce and bereavement?

crfische · August 2009

I do a little bit of everything. I work full time in a residential treatment facility as well as have a private practice where I take all the misc. stuff (marrige, grief, run of the mill depression, etc.). My "kids" that I talk about are the ones in the residential treatment facility. We have 26 beds. 14 boys, 12 girls. They are the most amazing humans I know. The crap those kids go through and recover from is absolutely phenomenal. We had bought land in south fargo to expand our campus. Add a gym, a chapel, horse arena, and assessment beds. The people who live in the neighborhood we were going to expand to, didn't want our kids out there because they thought they think they are horrible kids. They aren't. farthest thing from it.I could go on forever. I've been going to city commission meetings and lobbying at city hall for this for about 2 years.

crfische · August 2009

So essentially, we have 3 of 5 commissioners on board to annex us into the city. Which we thought we had won. Turns out, one of the adjacent land owners, who was originally on our side, was offered a ridiculous amount of money by one of our biggest opponents for her land. Because of this, we have an adjacent land owner who doesn't want us out there, which means we need a super majority. There is NO WAY we would get 4 of 5 commissioners to approve it. Gah.

mrsLesGrossman · August 2009

I see, thought it was a school. Is it for drugs and alcohol or for psychiatric treatment? I had a bereavement counselor at my school, she was amazing, besides counseling, she was a professor at NYU. They fired her because she wrote a book about prostitution and feminism.

crfische · August 2009

Well, the school is attached, but the kids live there. When you work in residential, you see a bit of everything because you never know what's going to get referred. which makes me need to read a lot. and network. and soak in knowledge of other people.

crfische · August 2009

And it's for all of the above. We do chemical dependency counseling, have a psychiatrist on board, etc. You name it, we do it.

Mrs.B6302007 · August 2009

What an awesome job!

mrsLesGrossman · August 2009

That is very interesting work. I knew you did something but it sounds cool. I appreciate people that work with these issues.

crfische · August 2009

Thanks, guys. I really do have the best job ever, but only because I work with the most fantastic kids on the block.

mrsLesGrossman · August 2009

My only other comment is I don't think the cats in your sig are real. They are too cute and perfectly shaped. Their fur is so perfect looking.

colleenspencer · August 2009

Fishy I may have to pick your brain when we gtg. My son has some major mommy issues, that I could use some guidance on.

crfische · August 2009

They probably aren't. Anna made it for me.

crfische · August 2009

oh pick away! I might not stand by ALL of the advice I give over drinks, but I'm sure it'll still be pretty sound.

mocha beans · August 2009

What tips you got for working with adolescents with CD issues? I'm interviewing for an on-call position tomorrow, any buzz words I should know about? I've worked with adults with MI/CD before.

crfische · August 2009

motivational interviewing is where it's at in the CD world these days. They'll dig that if they've done their research and are hip with the times. All the CD literature goes against punishing for relapse, rewarding for honesty, and learning for future events.

mrsLesGrossman · August 2009

What is MI and CD?

mocha beans · August 2009

Mentally ill and chemically dependent.Awesome, I've done some of that stuff at the old job.

crfische · August 2009

Mental Illness Chemical Dependency

crfische · August 2009

miller and rollnick have the book that's the buzz book in motivational interviewing. It's worth a quick perusal.

WildRumpus · August 2009

Fisch, what's your degree in? Psych?

mrsLesGrossman · August 2009

But why would you want to fix chemical dependency? I don't understand, pills are made for fun.

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