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[quote=Anonymous]My 6 yo DS (almost 7) continues to provide challenges to us, and I'm not sure where to go next for help.

He was accepted into Child Find when he was three for "Social / emotional delays" which generally meant that in school, he couldn't pay attention to what was going on, could get VERY upset and disruptive.  At that time, I did a lot of reading about temperament and believe that he is "difficult."  Raising Your Spirited Child was extremely helpful for us.  Follwoing that book, he learned at an early age to negotiate and compromise.  He attended the county special education preschool program.  We also took him to a private therapist who helped give him tools to try to manage his emotions (red / yellow / green terminology, breathing exercises, muscle exercises, etc.)

In K, he had ZERO behavioral issues at school - got his sticker for good behavior every day.  But, on the weekends, he was still very emotional and could get very angry, so we continued with therapy for a bit to keep working on his emotions.  In 1st grade, again, no behavior issues at school, but was still very explosive at home.  We saw another therapist (a new therapist as his first one had left the practice) for a few weeks who gave us some tools to help manage him during his explosions and after to try to train him not to get explosive.

Toward the end of 1st grade, he was diagnosed with dyslexia and dysgraphia (pretty strong, based on the scores) and also considered for ADHD (TOVA test said yes, another computer test was exactly 50/50 and the scales were not strongly ADHD / not ADHD).  While ADHD was not diagnosed, we were given information and tools for ADHD to practice and also suggested that we monitor him for ADHD since it can be hard to discern between it and the dyslexia.

This summer, his behavior has been extremely explosive, and last weekend, he stood at the top of the stairs with one leg over and other on tip toes while he said he was going to kill himself b/c we didn't love him.  This last situation was b/c we asked him to pick up the legos that he threw all over the house in a fit of rage over my inability to fix a bruised thumb (from lego-pushing).  When he's calm, he is extremely sweet, thoughtful, engaging, charismatic and loving.  And he knows how much we love him (bc we tell him and he acknowledges).  When he's not in a fit, he engages very well in describing his emotions and why he got upset and is always remorseful if he hurt anyone. But, given his last episode, I feel like we need to get him back into therapy again.  I don't think he's depressed and really wants to kill himself (he's only 6!), but I do fear that his emotions will get the better of him and he may make a mistake.

My issue is that I don't know where to take him.  Psychiatrist?  Psychologist?  Specific names of helpful therapists would be extremely appreciated (we live in FFX).  Thank you![/quote]

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