[llamathrowaway]

This is assuming the story is real, not just some marketing campaign:

1. Therapy requires mutual trust to work. Administrating therapy at this point, after turning the child into an adversary by taking away electronics as a form of punishment, would make the child think that the therapy sessions are no more than another form of punishment. Nothing useful can come out of the therapy if the child perceives the therapist as an enemy.

2. It frightens me how people turns everything that is supposed to be a part of human life into a medical condition, and treat 'therapy' as the deus ex machina that could solve all inconveniences in our social life.

[forgottenpass]

>It frightens me how people turns everything that is supposed to be a part of human life into a medical condition

In my experience it's correlated with the US West-coast passive aggression. Nothing can just be a difference in opinion and/or personality clash.

[beatgammit]

Exactly, which is why I'm a little concerned about the knee jerk reaction to promote mental health as a solution to problems we have in society (mass shootings, CP, suicide, etc).

As you said, you need the patient to want to change in order for progress to be made, and mixing punishment and therapy makes that nearly impossible.

What we need is a fundamental shift in how we view mental illness and discipline. Instead of just punishing people for doing something wrong, we should be looking at why the mistake was made and try to work with the individual to fix that and use punishment only if more effective methods don't work.

Maybe we need psychologists to work with parents/communities so parents know how to approach deviant behavior in a constructive way. I firmly believe that if parenting is done well, people will be better equipped to deal with problems later in life.