Supporting at-risk youth and their families with Therapeutic Behavioral Services

“Mom, can I play video games?” asked the ten-year-old boy. “It’s time for your homework now, but after you finish that you can play,” his mother answered. Hair tousled and eyes clear, he took his mother’s words in stride. She remembered the days, only months before, when a simple refusal or request could send him into a rage, screaming and throwing anything in arms distance. When she and her son first came to Mental Health Systems’ (MHS) Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS) she had no idea how to handle his outbursts. He’d been diagnosed with ADHD and Mood Disorder and had been hospitalized multiple times. She felt hopeless and overwhelmed. Today, she gratefully claims, “TBS was the light at the end of the tunnel for us.”

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