Comments on: How Should Doctors Treat Childhood Trauma?

By: Chin Gao

Chin Gao — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:52:23 +0000

Kids are learning and is much easier for them to adapt and change than adults, kid should be expose to therapy before any medication.

By: Tim C

Tim C — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:36:31 +0000

I think most children take their cue from the adults around them. If the adults make it a big deal the child will also.

By: Lee Stu

Lee Stu — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:02:52 +0000

GEE with cuts to Medicare Medicaid looming who do you think will pay for this ? Doctors Treating Trumas stop the Lawsuits Batman another rise in Malpractice insurance? and I guess broke Social SEcurity Admin can pay out billions for this “My 4 yr old is in shock Please pay SSI til reach age 18 thank you! My kid gets SSDI does yours? well hurry up and get in Line it’s free until 18 yrs

By: JoseTheWrangler

JoseTheWrangler — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:48:23 +0000

Pediatricians have have NO BUSINESS treating children with trauma, unless they have extensive and specific psychotherapy training. The drug data quoted shows why: an ordinary pediatrician is completely unqualified to deal with psychological issues, dumps pills on the child, pills do no good, and child doesn’t get the psychotherapy he or she needs. And that’s IF he/she needs it at all — how adults react to traumatic events is no guide to how children of various ages do.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:27:04 +0000

Since traumatized children fits into their desire for gun control, they should publicize it and create fancy ribbons and foundations. We lose 22 military personnel every day to suicide from PTSD and it never even makes the news.

By: KWMerican

KWMerican — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:23:27 +0000

“We’re seeing more and more of these [traumas] every day, but we don’t have good evidence for how to make decisions for these kids”

How about looking back to the scary days of polio, when as a kid, you were terrified non-stop every single summer of being the next one killed or crippled.

This is nothing new. The only new aspect is shameless people trying to capitalize upon tragedy (quack psychiatrists and pharmaceuticals selling medication, and gun laws that wouldn’t have helped a single bit).

By: Lena

Lena — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:56:03 +0000

I think anyone who is even thinking about treating PTSD should have actually had it. For many, it’s not a “mental illness” that interferes with your reasoning; it’s an emotional upheaval that primary affects your emotional moods. I think it’s absolutely wrong to automatically think that medicating kids is the way to treat PTSD while they probably, as adults do, would benefit more from other forms of therapy.