<p>In my opinion, you are not ready to make a decision about therapeutic boarding school. It would seem to be the logical first choice is to have a therapist and a psychiatrist. The therapist for talk therapy and the psych for meds. (If you can find a psych who does therapy that might work as well, around here that is hard to do.)</p>
<p>Calla1 gave great advice about neuropsych eval. You can ask your pediatrician for recommendations.</p>
<p>One thing with therapy is that it is important to keep going, at least for a while, once the rough patch is over. The skills needed to manage issues need to be well established before therapy ends.</p>
<p>I had wondered if concerns about academics were driving some of this (I clicked and saw posts that I guess were about an older sibling.) It is important to try and separate the concerns about your child’s mental health issues with the school ones. I would recommend family therapy or at least therapy for you and your husband.</p>