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What has to happen before a child is referred for special education and related services?

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The post What has to happen before a child is referred for special education and related services? Please also see information about the Connecticut School-Based Diversion Initiative which is a program available at no cost to Connecticut schools to help meet the needs of students who are at-risk of arrest, expulsion and/or suspension.

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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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Eventually, they referred him to the rapid response team that specifically dealt with addiction. Weve been referring a lot of people to Dr. Gretchen Watson and a few others, but its not enough. We took him to the emergency room and tried to get him into a facility for detox, rehabwhatever was necessary. They made him wait for hours.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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3] I explained why none of the references supported this. [4] In 2017, suicide experts wrote in the Swedish medical journal that antidepressants, lithium, and clozapine prevent suicides, but several of their references were seriously misleading, and I noted that there is no reliable evidence that any drug can prevent suicide. [5]

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Dear Psychiatrist – I Survived

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I was just struggling… I was referred to you by my surgical team because they thought I was depressed. Since there was no mention of my head injury, it took my family five years to get me referred to a neurologist who documented significant issues related to my head injury and offered some support and treatment for that.

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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In her twenties, from an affluent, predominantly white neighbourhood, she was referred to me by her family doctor. Marginalization refers to the social theory that specific groups of people, typically minority groups based on race, gender, sexuality, or socioeconomic status, are pushed to the edges of society.

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“Functional Disorders”: One of Medicine’s Biggest Failures | Marion Brown

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When no physical cause is found the patients may be referred to psychiatrists, with at least the implication that the patients have a psychological problem.’ ’ He goes on to explain that O’Sullivan herself worries about this: ‘Like many Western doctors, I medicalise feelings and behaviour.

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What happened to the Serotonin Hypothesis?

Real Psychiatry

Most textbooks in medicine and biology may mention brief definitions and references to thermodynamics and evolution but beyond that the terms are missing. George Dawson, MD, DFAPA References: 1: Albert DA, Munson R, Resnick MD. I encourage any readers of this blog to do their own research by reading the reference materials.

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