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[quote=Anonymous]With kids it isn't exactly the same "danger to self or others" that it might be with adults. Like if the kid can't function in school at all. The first time for us it was partial hospitalization (grade 2), second time inpatient (grade 4, dx was a psychotic disorder at that point in time), third time inpatient at age 14.

But it's mostly to figure out how to stabilize on meds. Inpatient in our case was a few weeks both times. Kid was already involved with a psychologist the first time and psychiatrists the subsequent times. I suppose I kind of thought this would result in greater insight or something  (for us, at least) but not really.

When he was hospitalized at 14 I wrote my own summary covering the past several years as well as what had been going on more recently. I was very pleased that the attending psychiatrist (not the same person as his outpatient, and that was when I first learn that in any kind of hospital there generally isn't involvement with outpatient providers) read it and told me that he appreciated having that info. We were also having some issues with a couple of the staff in the unit and the psychiatrist allowed our son more passes than said staff would have liked. [/quote]

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