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On Parenting by Nancy Shute

Finding the Right Therapy for Children

October 30, 2008 06:17 PM ET | Nancy Shute | Permanent Link | Print

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Nancy with more thoughts from Anne Marie Albano

Anne Marie Albano, a researcher in the CBT study, passed along these further thoughts on CBT as a treatment:

-- We do not have any evidence that CBT makes medication treatment unnecessary.

-- Service utilization suggests that only a very small proportion of children who enter psychotherapy continue beyond the first couple of months. My recommendation was that families should try to stay in for up to 9 months or a year to cover all the bases.

-- Although early research suggests that CBT may have an adjunctive role in the treatment of some adult patients with schizophrenia, it is not viewed as a mainstay or by any means a substitute for appropriate medication treatment for this condition. There are no studies as yet for CBT in early onset schizophrenia.

-- Finally, the follow up studies reporting 7 to 10 years of benefit were focused on anxiety in children, not depression. These studies were of CBT only, and did not have a medication component. We do not have such long-term outcomes as yet for treating youth for depression.

Give them a break

Give children a chance to be children. Stop "doping" them with drugs to keep them in a stupor so they don't "disturb" teachers at school and soap opera addicts at home.

They will have plenty of time for society trying to "mold" them into the proper pattern of behavior as adults.

It is natural for children to be highly energetic at times and very focussed at times and just the opposite at times. They are exploring a diverse world for the very first time and testing their boundaries and finding their limits.

They are not miniature adults that need programming like a computer.

Some may have genuine disabilities, but the masses being misclassified with alphabet disorders that are only natural growing up and out and being subjected to regimentation that limits individualism does not let them be all that they can be.

Another method...

So, what I'm reading suggests that the preferred method of raising a child - by sealing them in a barrel and feeding them through the hole in the barrel until they're 18, then deciding whether to let them out and become a productive member of society or driving a cork into the hole - is out, huh?

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About On Parenting

Parenting may be an art, but there's a lot of science behind raising healthy, thriving children. Contributing Editor Nancy Shute explores the latest discoveries and developments affecting children's health and parenting. Send her your comments and questions at onparenting@usnews.com.

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