Opinion: How learning the truth about chaos theory has helped me as an inpatient child psychologist
A new understanding of the butterfly effect has changed how one inpatient child psychologist approaches her patients.
In inpatient child psychology, we treat children in crisis deemed at imminent risk of harm to themselves or others. I am published earlier this year found an overwhelming spike in mental illness-related crises in the past decade. This is particularly true for youth, for whom mental health-related emergency room visits have doubled, with a five-fold increase in the proportion of those visits that are for suicide-related symptoms.
