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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 185301" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>An MDE was the most beneficial in our case. If I had to pick the most beneficial <em>single</em> professional in difficult child's life, it would be psychiatrist. Although, he alone is not sufficient, unless I could find a psychiatrist that did counselling.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I think there are two things that play into this- one is that the "right" professional has a lot to do with the problem that the difficult child has and the second is that is has a lot to do with the repoirte you have with that preofessional.</p><p></p><p>Neuropsychological testing was EXTREMELY beneficial for difficult child. It ruled out a lot, helped with school issues, and revealed specificly how his issues were effecting him and his ability to function. But, the nueropsych did not diagnosis difficult child (even though she wrote diagnosis in the report) because she said difficult child's issues were more for the psychiatrist to diagnosis in this case (she worked in the office that 2 psychiatrists own so maybe she defers to them when it is a mood disorder/psychiatric issue). I didn't particularly like this neuropsychologist personality-wise anyway- I found her arrogant and condescending and was not happy that she apparently did not believe me when I told her that difficult child had not always exhibited these problems, so I don't really think she took that into consideration. Which is no problem if she is only reporting test results, but I would have found it problemmatic if she were diagnosis'ing him.</p><p></p><p>The MDE, on the other hand, was so beneficial because just like some tests serve to rule-out possible diagnosis's if the difficult child scores "normal", the different professionals involved can collabratively look at history, previous medications, test results, and consider possible diagnosis's from their perspective angles. For instance, difficult child's slowness to answer questions was once seen as refusal to answer (defiance) by a psychiatric, a possible learning disability by an Ed Spec, and cognitive dulling resulting from medications by psychiatrist. Neurospych testing revealed no true learning disability but showed slowness in processing certain things <em>on the day of testing</em>. Since I knew that difficult child did not always have this problem, but that it had gotten worse since taking depakote, we could collaboratively conclude that this was either a part of BiPolar (BP) or being nervous or side effects from medications. </p><p></p><p>It sounds very simple, but I shudder to think what direction we'd be going in if <em>only</em> a psychiatric had evaluated him or if only the school would have evaluated him. Even if only the psychiatrist had evaluated him, I would have a doubt in my mind if we had missed something and if something else was going on.</p><p></p><p>I assume a social worker would have concluded that difficult child had been taught by me not to answer questions. LOL!</p><p></p><p>Sorry- that was probably a lot more than you were asking for!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 185301, member: 3699"] An MDE was the most beneficial in our case. If I had to pick the most beneficial [I]single[/I] professional in difficult child's life, it would be psychiatrist. Although, he alone is not sufficient, unless I could find a psychiatrist that did counselling. Personally, I think there are two things that play into this- one is that the "right" professional has a lot to do with the problem that the difficult child has and the second is that is has a lot to do with the repoirte you have with that preofessional. Neuropsychological testing was EXTREMELY beneficial for difficult child. It ruled out a lot, helped with school issues, and revealed specificly how his issues were effecting him and his ability to function. But, the nueropsych did not diagnosis difficult child (even though she wrote diagnosis in the report) because she said difficult child's issues were more for the psychiatrist to diagnosis in this case (she worked in the office that 2 psychiatrists own so maybe she defers to them when it is a mood disorder/psychiatric issue). I didn't particularly like this neuropsychologist personality-wise anyway- I found her arrogant and condescending and was not happy that she apparently did not believe me when I told her that difficult child had not always exhibited these problems, so I don't really think she took that into consideration. Which is no problem if she is only reporting test results, but I would have found it problemmatic if she were diagnosis'ing him. The MDE, on the other hand, was so beneficial because just like some tests serve to rule-out possible diagnosis's if the difficult child scores "normal", the different professionals involved can collabratively look at history, previous medications, test results, and consider possible diagnosis's from their perspective angles. For instance, difficult child's slowness to answer questions was once seen as refusal to answer (defiance) by a psychiatric, a possible learning disability by an Ed Spec, and cognitive dulling resulting from medications by psychiatrist. Neurospych testing revealed no true learning disability but showed slowness in processing certain things [I]on the day of testing[/I]. Since I knew that difficult child did not always have this problem, but that it had gotten worse since taking depakote, we could collaboratively conclude that this was either a part of BiPolar (BP) or being nervous or side effects from medications. It sounds very simple, but I shudder to think what direction we'd be going in if [I]only[/I] a psychiatric had evaluated him or if only the school would have evaluated him. Even if only the psychiatrist had evaluated him, I would have a doubt in my mind if we had missed something and if something else was going on. I assume a social worker would have concluded that difficult child had been taught by me not to answer questions. LOL! Sorry- that was probably a lot more than you were asking for! [/QUOTE]
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