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Consultation interactions between special education teachers and child psychiatrists
1Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child Psychiatry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, USA. rmattison@mail.psychiatry.sunysb.edu
Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
Characteristics were investigated for 169 special education students referred to a child psychiatrist consultant. There was a common occurrence of learning or language disorders, predominance of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, severity and complexity of psychopathology, and undertreatment. The teachers especially asked about diagnosis, behavioral management, and medication and also about issues involving learning and language disorders.