Your Child's First Consultation Questions You Should Ask Your 31st Psychiatric Consultation William R. Yee M.D., J.D., Copyright Applied for May 22, 2022

By William Yee

This book is presented as a series of actions to prepare for the first office visit to inform the doctor before starting treatment. This is followed by a series of questions that should be asked about psychiatric treatment of children before accepting a prescription for medications.
The object is to secure the best treatment based up on the best practices and informed choice.
Non-Compliance is a concept that supports excessive use of medications in violation of informed choice and the best practices of medicine. Noncompliance is a concept that supports the practice of medicine by politicians in the service of the pharmaceutical industry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Nov 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9781387466030

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Your Child's First Consultation

Questions You Should Ask

Your 31st Psychiatric Consultation

William R. Yee M.D., J.D.,

Copyright Applied for May 22, 2022

Questions you should ask the psychiatrist during the first interview include the following:

1. What is the diagnosis that explains the problems that brings you to the psychiatrist?

2. What are the available treatments for this diagnosis?

3. What should be the first treatment for this diagnosis?

4. What are the available medications?

5. How many patients do you have to treat with a medication to find one patient that benefits?

6. How many patients do you have to treat with a placebo to find one patient that benefits?

7. If the patient benefits from the medication what is the average benefit?

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8. If the patient benefits from a placebo what is the average benefit of the placebo?

9. What is the advantage of a medication over a placebo?

10. How many patients do you have to treat with the medication to harm one patient?

11. How many patients do you have to treat with a placebo to harm the patient?

12. What is the disadvantage of the medication when compared to a placebo?

13. What is the baseline functioning for this patient?

14. What is the expectation for functional recovery if the patient is maintained on medication after returning to baseline functioning?

15. What is the expectation for functional recovery if the patient is taken off medication after returning to baseline functioning.

16. I have been researching treatments, how trustworthy is medical research?

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1. What is the diagnosis that explains the problems that brings me to the psychiatrist?

People bring their children to a psychiatrist only after they have tried to solve a problem with the child and failed.

Problems with children come in two flavors, behavioral problems, and emotional problems.

Behavioral problems include, but are not limited to

1. temper tantrums;

2. assaults;

3. destruction of property;

4. running, running away from home.

5. school truancy;

6. drug usage.

7. sexual promiscuity.

8. eating too much or too little,

9. sleeping too much. too little, or irregularly; 10. self-mutilation,

11. suicide attempts,

12. delusions,

13. hallucinations.

14. obsessions;

15. compulsions.

16. Anxiety and avoidance

17, depression and isolation

18. mood swings unpredictable behavior

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Emotional problems include, but are not limited to

1. mood swings,

2. depressions,

3. anxiety,

4. anger.

The first thing that must be done is to diagnose and treat medical