Our Services
Our practice includes children, adolescent and adult patients. While the exact treatment schedule will depend on a patient’s unique needs, our patients meet with us in a single session or an initial 1-hour session with 20-minute follow-up sessions.
Making the effort to understand a patient’s disorder requires careful examination of his or her surroundings, family dynamics and history. We efficiently evaluate each patient’s unique challenges, learning what is at the root of the situation, then help that patient move toward positive mental health. Our practice covers Children and Adolescents with ADHD, Autism or mood disorders. Also, we see Adults with all rage of psychiatric needs such as anxiety, depression or other mood disorders.
“While ADHD remains a big challenge for a child’s psychiatrist, parents, and teachers, it is also the most common, correctable psychiatric disorder. In my experience the biggest hurdles to treatment remain limited guidance to care givers, limited info about the stimulants, and an older generation’s anecdotal beliefs surrounding a short acting stimulant’s side effects within the client’s family. I realize that many parents are guided by their own parents as to whether their child should take a stimulant (or not), but they should factor in current information and spend appropriate time with care givers.
Having an opportunity to understand all side effects and the safety of today’s longer acting stimulants, helps alleviate parents’ anxiety and initiate treatment. Once medication is on-board, parents and grandparent often witness a child’s gradual improvements in function and calmed behavior. Unfortunately, tolerance may develop requiring an escalation of the stimulant dose, which may carry additional side effects. Again, preparation and an understanding of possible side effects offer the best chance of compliance.
It is crucial that the care giver understand when to completely switch a stimulant rather than increasing a dose in the midst of primary stimulant’s side effect. Maintaining a strong communication line with care givers, including discussing all options and involving parents in decisions, helps ensure smooth transitions.
Here is short intro to ADHD. Also visit following link.”
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Children & Adolescent Services
