Great Stories Club Book Club

Behavior Progress: During this review period, Tyler has continued to participate in all aspects of the program with some difficulty. Early in the review period, Tyler presented some struggle with interacting appropriately with his peers and staff. For example, on 5/24/17, Tyler received 8 hour of room restriction and a MRT set back to step 3 for arguing with staff and disrespectful display. On 5/26/17, Tyler received 13 hours of room restriction for engaging in a verbal altercation during class. During this incident, Tyler and his peer were both overheard by staff making inciting and challenging comments towards each other. As result Tyler and his peer both received room restriction and MRT set backs to step 3 for not doing the program as required.

Tyler has been counsel by the treatment team throughout this review period about his repetitive pattern of problem behavior and tendency to argue. Tyler expressed a desire to make behavior changes and has been receptive to feedback given by the treatment team. Due to Tyler’s struggles to manage his behavior, Tyler was initially delayed in obtaining his Level II promotion by

Tyler also participated in the program’s greenhouse second plant sale on 5/24/17 and a cooking class at the Young Chef’s Academy. During this period, Tyler and his peers participated in The Great Stories Club book club discussion for the assigned book this period “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” by Ned Vizzini. The assigned book for the next book discussion is “Thirteen Reasons Why” by Jay Asher.

Family/Clinical Progress: In MRT, Tyler completed Steps 4 and is currently working on Step 5. As previously mentioned, Tyler was set back to Steps 1 and 3 of MRT. Tyler attempted to pass his set back on 5/16/17, but unfortunately was unsuccessful. Tyler will have another opportunity to pass his set back on