Dr. Leilani Sharpe
Outpatient Child Psychiatry: Age versus Developmentally Appropriate
Psychiatrists can learn an incredible amount about a child's history, average day, and past treatments by engaging in imaginative play...
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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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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
Jan 7, 20221 min read
New Series: Outpatient Child Psychiatry
I'm going to spend the next several posts on what it's like to start care with an outpatient child psychiatrist. Currently I'm debating...
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