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[quote=tabira][quote=Anonymous]Why are you looking for NPs?

People use psychiatrists (MD) for medication management, psychologists (PhD) for evaluations/diagnoses and occasionally therapy, and licensed social workers or similar for therapy.

The way you post makes you sound very antagonistic towards the medical and therapeutic establishment, and I'm not sure anything you write is credible.

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What is not credible? That I called a lot of providers and they would not tell me their NP's experience? I can't make you believe me, but I am fine with it. I am not trying to prove anything to anybody. I am frustrated and that I am sure comes across in the post. I am partly venting, partly looking for tips.

Why NPs? Why not? I prefer a MD, but I will take an experienced psychiatric NP for medication management. My kid has seen both kinds. I do realize that in asking for recommendations, I inadvertently left out MDs. Corrected.

I specifically mention NPs, because I haven't had problem finding out about MD's experience. What I have witnessed is peculiar to psych NPs who have had long medical experience and newly became psych NPs.

I have been dealing with child and adolescent psych providers for 4 years, unfortunately. I get the medication and therapy part. Again too familiar. With all sorts of therapies.

Today I took a day off to call around for medication management. Therapists is another day. My kid needs both.[/quote]

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