Mental Health Services for Educators in Boston

Our approach to treating children and adolescents is to collaborate with educators, such as teachers, guidance counselors, coaches, parents, and other health care providers, and encourage frequent contact. School is a place where students are exposed to learning, friendships, teachers, counsellors, sports and other extracurricular activities. "Kids do well if they can". A lot of kids are able to hold it together in school as they want to be able to do well and when they come home in a relatively low stress environment, they loosen up having exhausted their cognitive and emotional resources to  able to hold it together in school.  Many times kids are not able to hold in together in school but perform relatively better at home. It is important to recognize and dig deeper into all facets of a child's day to be able to determine the factors hindering your child's overall functioning. 

Educators play a vital role as they are the direct observers of your child in a setting where most learning is involved. What subjects a child struggle in(eg.ADHD kids often have hard time in reading and math which require relatively more focusing)? How is your child with transitions(eg. kids with ADHD and Autism often have struggles with transitions)? Is it easy for your child to make and sustain friendships? How does your child handle different stressors in school? Does he externalize or act out or does he internalize? How does he behave socially with other friends or in a group? Does he or she sit alone at lunch? Is he being bullied in school? What are his strengths? How are his fine and gross motor skills? Educators play a quintessential role in overall growth of your child and it is important to get them involved in our overall assessment and treatment plans for your child. 

When contacting parents about recommending their child to a psychiatrist, it may be helpful to reassure them that their child's mental illnessis not the fault of the parents or the child. A change in brain chemistry causes the majority of mental diseases.