tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184208181444239184.post8243339092739896425..comments2024-03-29T01:56:37.975-04:00Comments on Child in Mind: Dyadic Therapy: Working with the Parent-Child RelationshipClaudia M. Gold, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13081419560269676730noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184208181444239184.post-16178712728932225632010-09-28T09:57:22.919-04:002010-09-28T09:57:22.919-04:00Claudia, I am right there with you about the need ...Claudia, I am right there with you about the need for a community of dyadic therapists. I believe the fundamental problem with insurance panels may not be resolve anytime soon. I believe we can create a network of therapists who develop a sliding scale payment system for families if only we have the vision to do it. Thank you for your insightful post.Bookfiendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02841010275726244561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184208181444239184.post-44695407638146612612010-09-28T06:41:33.524-04:002010-09-28T06:41:33.524-04:00In response to the above comments, as well as thos...In response to the above comments, as well as those I've received privately, I wish to clarify my position that use of play therapy is only problematic when done in isolation from the parent-child relationship. Play therapy can be of great value, as play is a child's way of communicating. <br /><br />It In addition, there are some circumstances when seeing a young child(by which I mean under five) alone may be important, such as in cases of suspected abuse.Claudia M. Gold, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13081419560269676730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184208181444239184.post-28709286319034775092010-09-27T10:29:42.224-04:002010-09-27T10:29:42.224-04:00Well said, Claudia! Working with parents and chil...Well said, Claudia! Working with parents and children together is crucial to making change happen and making it last. However, it's not always necessary to see them together. There are many factors that can contribute to why a therapist would choose to see a child alone and then have "parent guidance" sessions every other week, every month, or whatever. That being said, I think very young children (<3) would likely need a parent/caregiver present most, if not all, of the time.<br /><br />Like you, I'd like there to be a network of colleagues who work with very young children. However, I think the hope for those professionals being on insurance panels is wishful thinking. I have my own reasons for not being on any panels that I can share with you at our next IPMH session, but I almost always will accept a patient's specialist co-pay as if I were in-network.<br /><br />Lastly, I'd just like to take issue w/ Dr. Allen on his blast about play therapy. Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but to lump play therapy with schizophrenogenic mothers and penis envy is a bit beyond the pail. I think that's the kind of rhetoric people hear from trusted professionals, which then gets acted out in the form of resistance when a different professional is giving a recommendation for therapy. That's my $.02.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01902821382482910983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184208181444239184.post-16777024161220418062010-09-25T11:17:44.160-04:002010-09-25T11:17:44.160-04:00You are so right! It is scandalous that child psy...You are so right! It is scandalous that child psychiatrists want to medicate children from traumatic circumstances and do nothing else. <br /><br />Play therapy, in my opinion, belongs with such discredited psychoanalytic ideas as "schizophrenogenic mothers" and "penis envy."<br /><br />Family systems therapy was big in the eighties but unfairly fell out of fashion due to a wide variety of disperate yet converging societal forces. (That is the subject of my new book).David M. Allen M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06280912088483192599noreply@blogger.com