Child Psychiatry

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Jan 21, 20222 min read

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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Outpatient Child Psychiatry: More Privacy With Age

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Jan 18, 20222 min read

Child Psychiatry

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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Outpatient Child Psychiatry: Blended Families

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Jan 17, 20221 min read

Outpatient Child Psychiatry

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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Outpatient Child Psychiatry: Collecting Collateral

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Jan 13, 20222 min read

Outpatient Child Psychiatry

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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Outpatient Child Psychiatry: Guardianship

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Jan 11, 20221 min read

Outpatient Child Psychiatry

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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Outpatient Child Psychiatry: "What Ages?"

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Jan 10, 20222 min read

Outpatient Child Psychiatry

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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Psychiatric Subspecialities: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Nov 30, 20211 min read

Psychiatric Subspecialties

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

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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Emergency Psychiatric Services: "Home, Outpatient Care, or Hospitalization?"

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Nov 1, 20212 min read

Emergency Psychiatric Care

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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Types of Psychotherapy: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Oct 18, 20212 min read

Child Psychiatry

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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Types of Psychotherapy: Parent-Child Interaction Therapy

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Oct 14, 20212 min read

Psychiatry

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

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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Types of Psychotherapy: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Oct 11, 20212 min read

Types of Psychotherapy

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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Types of Psychotherapy: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Oct 8, 20212 min read

Types of Psychotherapy

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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Starting Psychotherapy: Thoughts and Behaviors

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Oct 1, 20211 min read

Starting Psychotherapy

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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Types of Psychotherapy: Supportive Psychotherapy

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Sep 30, 20211 min read

Starting Psychotherapy

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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Starting Psychotherapy: Common Therapy Modalities

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Sep 29, 20211 min read

Starting Psychotherapy

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

Psychiatry

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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Psychotherapy Providers: The Concept of "Terminal Training"

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Sep 23, 20212 min read

Psychotherapy Providers

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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Psychotherapy Providers: Marriage and Family Therapists

Dr. Leilani Sharpe

Sep 22, 20211 min read

Psychotherapy Providers

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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