Reconciling Divergent Patient Information: It’s About More Than Who’s Right

While many child mental health professional stress the importance of obtaining information from multiple sources (child, mother, father, teachers, etc.), it is less clear what exactly one should DO with this information.  This dilemma is highlighted in circumstances where the reports from different informants paint a very different picture of the same child.  In a […]

Family Based Treatment – Think About These 5 Areas

  by David Rettew, MD When many people think about child psychiatric treatment, what comes into their mind is medications.  While it is true that many medications can be an important part of a patient’s overall treatment plan, other areas also need to be considered towards providing comprehensive family-based care. In training medical students and […]