[Fishing-guy]

The article points out a problem in this country. There are not enough child psychiatrists around.

Doctors from other specialties, who are not trained in children mental health, are prescribing psychiatric medications instead of prescribing a comprehensive treatment plan.

[softengine]

Really?

You came away from that article with the understanding that the problem was the fact that we haven't enough child psychologists?

Wow. I came away thinking that perhaps we should reevaluate drugging children as young as 2. I came away from it thinking that a teenager on 17 different types of heavy-duty medication is outrageous.

It didn't occur to me that the problem was not those things, but that we need more child psychologists.

Ok.

[FITZ]

There are not enough child psychiatrists around.

Not all psychiatrists are mentally sound nor are their kids. One psychiatrist's wife here committed suicide by gassing herself -- but that was after a previous attempt a few months prior to that where she was caught trying to make her kids jump off ledge with her -- to go together.

[I_dmc]

That's ok. Health care plans only pay for 15 minute "med check visits" anyway.

[looscnnn]

So we are supposed to foot the bill so that there will be more psychiatrists? Maybe the reason there is not as many is because there is not a lot of need for them.

How about misdiagnosis by the psychiatrists and prescribing Ritalin, etc. for a medical problem that presents symptoms similar to a psychological problem?