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Who is on your treatment team?

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I'm curious do most of you use a pediatrician, a psychiatrist, a nurse practitioner? Do you have other counselors involved or just the prescriber? Maybe we can help each other find ideas!

I use a pediatric psychiatric NP, an individual counselor for my daughter a family counselor and she has two amazing counselors at school! I also just found a small group of girls that is going to meet for 6 weeks starting in January.

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We started with pediatric neurologist but switched to pediatrician this year. Due to a move, we had to change kids' pediatrician and new one happened to be an ADHD specialist. Daughter has a therapist and we are working on one for son.

Kids also have 504/IEP so we have school team. We also employ an educational advocate for them.

I am just starting out on getting him set up with doctors. I am going to have him go to an outside of school counselor along with the counselor at school. I want him to be able to have someone to talk to when he needs it. I will be asking both counselors to work together. Today will be his first time to go see a PCP. I am having problems with a federal law that the mother has to come back to the state every month to sign for a controlled substance. This situation will not work for us. I am going back to the judge after the holidays and seeing what exactly we can do to resolve the issue. since the mother still has parental rights. Complex situation. still trying to work out kinks on many ends.

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Do you have guardianship?

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Onthemove1971 in reply to LetYourVoiceBHeard

In our district we have a "Liaison" who is certified with the courts to sign all of our important documents so we send them to her and she signs them after a discussion about it. This has included medical forms, off campus travel forms and classroom field trip forms. This is often when there is not a person from the child's side who can sign forms for whatever reason. I hope they have that and they can help, it was a lifesaver for us!

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anirush

We use a psychiatrist for medicine, a behavioral counselor to try to learn to control impulses. Next week I have an appointment with a pediatric neurologist just to get a second opinion.

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Kiandra

I use a pediatrician, kids teachers, principal, mentors.

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Mmagusin

Teachers, psychiatrist, friends who also have kids with ADHD

My son sees a psychiatrist, teachers and online support groups

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clanchita

For those who mentioned that their kids have a behavioral counselor for impulse control, how did you find that person?

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Where I live we don't have separate CBT therapists, so we do this in family therapy. My daughter struggles more with social interactions, depression and anxiety. So we work on dealing with these issues.

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Janice_H

Most of my son's car is with a pediatric psychiatric NP, however I feel that there needs to be a team of individuals coordinating all the care together (his pediatrician, school psychologist, school counselor, behavior therapist, family therapist, parent support group and teen support group). Right now I feel like each care giver is disconnected and there is no time/money for the therapy and support groups.

You are doing the best thing by involving everyone in your dauther's care and seeking therapy and support groups for her!!!

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Pennywink

Our main provider is our pediatrician, who is wonderful and also has a teenager with ADHD, so he’s been through it all. We also see a pediatric neurologist NP for a comorbid tic disorder. Also his teacher, school counselor and school nurse have just been invaluable to us. Grandparents have also been watching our children weekly since they were born (one of which is a psychologist), so they have also been a huge help.

He had some monitoring by / tips from the school OT for handwriting concerns, but currently does snot regular see her. We also saw a neuropsychologist for testing, but that is also not a recurring thing.

My son also has a great connection with an intervention specialist at school, even though he doesn’t even need intervention services. He just got to know her when she has helped other kids in his class. But she is practically one of his BFFs at school.

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