Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Outpatient Child Psychiatry: Structured Informative Play
Caregivers will often ask why a physician completing an assessment will often seem to stop the formal evaluation and begin what looks...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Jan 18, 20222 min read
Outpatient Child Psychiatry: More Privacy With Age
Child psychiatrists typically see patients between 4 and 18 years of age. Understandably, the way a child psychiatrist interacts with a...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Jan 17, 20221 min read
Outpatient Child Psychiatry: Blended Families
Many children live in blended families, where in addition to their biological parents, they may also be raised by step parents, extended...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Jan 13, 20222 min read
Outpatient Child Psychiatry: Collecting Collateral
Whenever a person in the community is contacted to get a better idea of how a patient behaves outside of the healthcare setting, that is...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Jan 11, 20221 min read
Outpatient Child Psychiatry: Guardianship
Many children are cared for by adults who are not their legal guardians. In fact, their primary caregiver may not even be biologically...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Jan 10, 20222 min read
Outpatient Child Psychiatry: "What Ages?"
Child psychiatrists typically begin seeing patients at 4 years old. In general, this reflects that: Many behavioral challenges declare...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Nov 30, 20211 min read
Psychiatric Subspecialities: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
All child psychiatrists must complete an adult psychiatry residency before continuing on to another two years of training to see minors.
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Nov 10, 20211 min read
Psychiatric Clinics: Insurance Matters
Psychiatry is no different from other specialties in the US, in that a person's care can be affected by their insurance status.
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Nov 1, 20212 min read
Emergency Psychiatric Services: "Home, Outpatient Care, or Hospitalization?"
An emergency psychiatric evaluation is not complete until the care team knows the answer to a key question: After you leave emergency servi
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Oct 18, 20212 min read
Types of Psychotherapy: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a modality that provides a structured approach to helping a child process and recove
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Oct 14, 20212 min read
Types of Psychotherapy: Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is a modality where therapists work with parents or caregivers while they are interacting with their
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Oct 13, 20212 min read
Types of Psychotherapy: Family Therapy
Family therapy focuses on how a group of people who are invested in each other's well being focus as a system, rather than as individuals.
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Oct 11, 20212 min read
Types of Psychotherapy: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) was developed by a woman named Marsha Linehan who was psychiatrically hospitalized for over 2 years in
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Oct 8, 20212 min read
Types of Psychotherapy: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach that focuses on early and direct identification of cognitive distortions. Then, the...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Oct 1, 20211 min read
Starting Psychotherapy: Thoughts and Behaviors
As I start to review different types of psychotherapy modalities, you'll likely pick up that there is this running theme: Your thoughts...
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Sep 30, 20211 min read
Types of Psychotherapy: Supportive Psychotherapy
One could consider supportive psychotherapy a great introduction to therapy, from the perspective of the patient. But to therapists, suppor
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Sep 29, 20211 min read
Starting Psychotherapy: Common Therapy Modalities
In addition to different types of psychotherapy providers, there are also different types of psychotherapy approaches. Sometimes these appr
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Sep 28, 20212 min read
Psychotherapy Providers: Psychiatrists
Psychiatrists are physicians who chose to specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders that affect mood, thinking, and behaviors.
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Sep 23, 20212 min read
Psychotherapy Providers: The Concept of "Terminal Training"
Before moving on to other types of psychotherapy providers, I wanted to write a post on the concept of "terminal training".
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Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Sep 22, 20211 min read
Psychotherapy Providers: Marriage and Family Therapists
Since 2012, those wishing to become a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) need to meet several requirements in the state of...
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