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[quote=Anonymous]what are your child's issues and what does a session with the psychologist look like (for your child or you as the parent)?

My 4-year old DS has always been incredibly intense, emotional, hyperactive, and defiant in most every situation (home, public, extracurricular activities), except at school/daycare (he goes to a very structured preschool and his teacher has very specific expectations).  He is also in private OT and shows a lot of his behavioral issues there.  We saw a developmental pediatrician at KKI in the fall, and she indicated that we should work with a psychologist who has experience with young children to focus on compliance issues before worrying about other diagnoses due to his age.  She noted that we may be headed for an ADHD with anxiety diagnosis in the future.  We found a local psychologist that we have been seeing for almost 3 months.  We alternate weeks, where DH and I go by ourselves to discuss issues we're having with DS and then DS goes the next week.  From what I can tell, he and the psychologist just play, doing whatever he chooses to do with little direction.  He thinks it's great, but, as a result, she sees none of the behavioral issues that we're facing, and there is no discussion of them with him.

I'm relieved that DS is able to hold it together in school, but he is incredibly difficult to manage at home and out in public.  We didn't expect working with the psychologist to bring a quick fix, and we realize that we need to do a lot of the work ourselves, but we're just not sure what we're getting out of it for $165 a session.  Is he just too young to really work with directly, even through play therapy, with these types of behavioral issues?  We're wondering if we need to seek out a different psychologist.  We're going to get back in touch with the dev ped and try to get a better idea of what she thinks the psychologist should be doing with DS and us. I thought that by 3 months in, DH and I would have some more tools to deal with him aside from "focus on giving choices and providing immediate consequences," and I thought there would be more role playing between him and the psychologist in terms of dealing with frustration, anxiety, etc.

Has anyone dealt with similar issues with a very young child and found working with a psychologist to be helpful?  [/quote]

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