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<blockquote data-quote="idohope" data-source="post: 383243" data-attributes="member: 7722"><p>Thank you all for your thoughtful replies and comments.</p><p></p><p> I do not have blind faith but I do have a lot of confidence in the Neurospych. I have a personal connection with a neuropysch who works with adults in a research university. She contacted a colleague at a major Childrens Hospital and her former student and both independently named the doctor we saw as *the* one to see in our area. I was with difficult child for all 6 hours of testing. She refused to go into the room without me. Although she said all along she was not taking the tests she definitely gave her best effort once she got started. </p><p></p><p> We had a detailed discussion about difficult child being on the spectrum or not. Her inflexibility matches but other aspects do not. difficult child had the same teacher for two years and she and I both filled out questionnaires addressing spectrum issues. doctor said that teacher seemed to know difficult child very well and that there was good matching between her responses and mine and that they did not support difficult child being on the spectrum. I would remain open to changing or refined diagnosis but for now I will use this info to focus on anxiety as the issue. </p><p> </p><p>Your responses have been very helpful to me in trying to sort out how to proceed. difficult child had started to build a relationship with a therapist almost a year ago and we had to stop working with therapist because therapist moved practices and was bound by a non-competition agreement. (neuropsychologist was furious about this, knew another person who had dealt with the same situation and said would help us get back with that therapist if we felt that was the way to go). So although it may take 6 months of rapport building before therapeutic work can begin I think it is possible. husband is therapy resistant (although we are in marriage counseling) and if I have to struggle to get someone to participate it would be better to spend the effort on difficult child than husband at this point. difficult child has also been a little better about verbalizing her anxiety lately, so this may be a good time to try therapy for difficult child. I think neuropysch's suggestion was partly responding to division between husband and I. Neuropysch commented on how husband and I see very different aspects of difficult child's issues and she told him that difficult child is not doing her behaviors on purpose and that difficult child needs help. husband is somewhat locked in the "when I was kid you could not get away with this type of behavior".</p><p></p><p> So I think the plan will be to identify a good child therapist specializing in anxiety. And to keep our psychiatrist in the loop and see if we can jointly convince husband to go with medications if it seems like it is needed. </p><p> </p><p>Now this warrior Mom just has to put the plan into action. Thank you all again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="idohope, post: 383243, member: 7722"] Thank you all for your thoughtful replies and comments. I do not have blind faith but I do have a lot of confidence in the Neurospych. I have a personal connection with a neuropysch who works with adults in a research university. She contacted a colleague at a major Childrens Hospital and her former student and both independently named the doctor we saw as *the* one to see in our area. I was with difficult child for all 6 hours of testing. She refused to go into the room without me. Although she said all along she was not taking the tests she definitely gave her best effort once she got started. We had a detailed discussion about difficult child being on the spectrum or not. Her inflexibility matches but other aspects do not. difficult child had the same teacher for two years and she and I both filled out questionnaires addressing spectrum issues. doctor said that teacher seemed to know difficult child very well and that there was good matching between her responses and mine and that they did not support difficult child being on the spectrum. I would remain open to changing or refined diagnosis but for now I will use this info to focus on anxiety as the issue. Your responses have been very helpful to me in trying to sort out how to proceed. difficult child had started to build a relationship with a therapist almost a year ago and we had to stop working with therapist because therapist moved practices and was bound by a non-competition agreement. (neuropsychologist was furious about this, knew another person who had dealt with the same situation and said would help us get back with that therapist if we felt that was the way to go). So although it may take 6 months of rapport building before therapeutic work can begin I think it is possible. husband is therapy resistant (although we are in marriage counseling) and if I have to struggle to get someone to participate it would be better to spend the effort on difficult child than husband at this point. difficult child has also been a little better about verbalizing her anxiety lately, so this may be a good time to try therapy for difficult child. I think neuropysch's suggestion was partly responding to division between husband and I. Neuropysch commented on how husband and I see very different aspects of difficult child's issues and she told him that difficult child is not doing her behaviors on purpose and that difficult child needs help. husband is somewhat locked in the "when I was kid you could not get away with this type of behavior". So I think the plan will be to identify a good child therapist specializing in anxiety. And to keep our psychiatrist in the loop and see if we can jointly convince husband to go with medications if it seems like it is needed. Now this warrior Mom just has to put the plan into action. Thank you all again. [/QUOTE]
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