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pediatrician says diagnosis :V40.9 UNS MENTAL/BEHAVIORAL PROBLEM...
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 638297" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>It really varies from place to place, some things are similar, some different.</p><p></p><p>If I have understood it correctly in US neuropsychological evaluation doesn't include much of neurological testing (meaning EEGs etc.) When my difficult child was tested, it was more comprehensive evaluation. Really they didn't get it done in the day, first one was seven days and couple nights at hospital (if memory serves me correctly, it was long time ago) and even second one when difficult child was already close to a teen and they could work him harder, it was four days and one night. Neurologist, psychiatrist, psychologist, neuropsychologist, speech pathologist, special education person, physical therapist, occupational therapist and I likely even forgot someone making their own tests. Lots of papers to fill both for us parents but also school. All kind of things from sleep study to other neurological testing, cognitive tests, motor skills, attachment and family functioning, they videotaped his play on his own (with different type of toys), with an adult (both a psychologist and us parents) and with other kids and analysed that and really a lot of stuff from different angles. Case summaries we got home from it ended up rather massive even though difficult child never got any 'big' diagnosis and the outcome of latter one was summarized verbally by the neurologist with: "People are different, some are more so than others."</p><p></p><p>It is so long ago, that I can't remember which parts were actually done by neuropsychologist. Most of cognitive testing etc. was done by psychologist anyway and actual neuropsychologist part wasn't much bigger than part of the occupational therapist or physical therapist. Of course one big difference here and in US is, that here neuropsychologist can't diagnose a squat, neither can of course psychologist. If you are not MD, you do not diagnose. Others just provide testing and info for the MD's to base their diagnoses to. In our hospital it was neurologist who was head of the team and made the diagnosis, in some other hospitals the same teams are headed by psychiatrists and they do the official diagnosing. Of course doesn't make much difference though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 638297, member: 14557"] It really varies from place to place, some things are similar, some different. If I have understood it correctly in US neuropsychological evaluation doesn't include much of neurological testing (meaning EEGs etc.) When my difficult child was tested, it was more comprehensive evaluation. Really they didn't get it done in the day, first one was seven days and couple nights at hospital (if memory serves me correctly, it was long time ago) and even second one when difficult child was already close to a teen and they could work him harder, it was four days and one night. Neurologist, psychiatrist, psychologist, neuropsychologist, speech pathologist, special education person, physical therapist, occupational therapist and I likely even forgot someone making their own tests. Lots of papers to fill both for us parents but also school. All kind of things from sleep study to other neurological testing, cognitive tests, motor skills, attachment and family functioning, they videotaped his play on his own (with different type of toys), with an adult (both a psychologist and us parents) and with other kids and analysed that and really a lot of stuff from different angles. Case summaries we got home from it ended up rather massive even though difficult child never got any 'big' diagnosis and the outcome of latter one was summarized verbally by the neurologist with: "People are different, some are more so than others." It is so long ago, that I can't remember which parts were actually done by neuropsychologist. Most of cognitive testing etc. was done by psychologist anyway and actual neuropsychologist part wasn't much bigger than part of the occupational therapist or physical therapist. Of course one big difference here and in US is, that here neuropsychologist can't diagnose a squat, neither can of course psychologist. If you are not MD, you do not diagnose. Others just provide testing and info for the MD's to base their diagnoses to. In our hospital it was neurologist who was head of the team and made the diagnosis, in some other hospitals the same teams are headed by psychiatrists and they do the official diagnosing. Of course doesn't make much difference though. [/QUOTE]
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