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<blockquote data-quote="JJJ" data-source="post: 133141" data-attributes="member: 1169"><p>As MWM said, a psychiatrist is a MD. You need the MD for medication management. You don't say how old or what your son weighs. My 12-year old, 80-lb son is on 54mg of Concerta. 90-mg sounds high but if your son is large, maybe it is right? I don't know. Is the concerta rx by your pediatrician? </p><p></p><p>Many different professionals can provide therapy. We have worked with Social Workers, Clinical Therapists and Psychologists. From my experience, it depends on the "match" between the professionals personal strengths and experience and your child's needs. My Kanga is an incredibly complex and severely mentally ill child. We deal almost exclusively with PhD for her -- although we had one amazing social worker at one of the hospitals. Tigger's best progress was made with a clinical therapist.</p><p></p><p>Basically, you need medication management and therapy. Only an MD can do the medication management and very few of them also offer therapy. </p><p></p><p>Could you tell us more about your son and who diagnosed him? It would be great if you could go to your "User CP" and create a signature (see mine at the bottom of the post).</p><p></p><p>Thanks,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJJ, post: 133141, member: 1169"] As MWM said, a psychiatrist is a MD. You need the MD for medication management. You don't say how old or what your son weighs. My 12-year old, 80-lb son is on 54mg of Concerta. 90-mg sounds high but if your son is large, maybe it is right? I don't know. Is the concerta rx by your pediatrician? Many different professionals can provide therapy. We have worked with Social Workers, Clinical Therapists and Psychologists. From my experience, it depends on the "match" between the professionals personal strengths and experience and your child's needs. My Kanga is an incredibly complex and severely mentally ill child. We deal almost exclusively with PhD for her -- although we had one amazing social worker at one of the hospitals. Tigger's best progress was made with a clinical therapist. Basically, you need medication management and therapy. Only an MD can do the medication management and very few of them also offer therapy. Could you tell us more about your son and who diagnosed him? It would be great if you could go to your "User CP" and create a signature (see mine at the bottom of the post). Thanks, [/QUOTE]
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