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Your child may have ADD/ADHD. The good news is professionals have learned that ADD/ADHD is only as medically “serious” as myopia. It’s treatment is as nearly straightforward as vision testing and eyeglasses. Both ADD/ADHD and myopia lead to profoundly negative outcomes if unrecognized and untreated. The difference is, they don’t blame you for not seeing well.
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Depression

“I can’t concentrate at work.”
“I’m always tired but I can’t sleep.”
“I’ve lost my appetite.”

Do you recognize these symptoms?
If so, you or someone you love may be suffering what Major Depression. You will also likely notice above that none of these symptoms is “depression.” That’s why it’s so hard to “miss” the diagnosis of depression. Everyone thinks it “looks” like depression. Instead, depression has many symptoms, quite often “not” depressed.

Because of this confusion in naming and actual symptoms, the Mood Disorders, including Major Depression, are recognized only 1/3 of the time (out of a total of 10.3% of the adult population per year). Worse still, Major Depression receives horrible treatment (merely “adequate” in 25% of cases) most of the time. When one considers that Major Depression is the NUMBER ONE cause of disability in the world (Harvard and WHO, 2000), ahead of heart disease, cancer, etc., these numbers are astounding. Major Depression has clearly replaced “high blood pressure” as the new “Silent Killer.” (Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S. – nearly 30,000 per year.

Because of depression’s significant complications, Child and Family Consultants’ clinicians approach its diagnosis and treatment with a comprehensive, holistic, eclectic approach. Major areas assessed include depression and other mood conditions, medical and psychiatric conditions, family history, medication history, as well as functioning in job and in important relationships. CFC employs active collaboration between therapist and psychiatrist to ensure that its patients are assessed/treated as conveniently and rapidly as possible, both initially and throughout treatment.  

If the client desires, CFC clinicians also help to address the customary work, disability, legal, and relationship issues attendant to depression and related disorders.

In summary, CFC clinicians pride themselves upon their ability to collect and review large amounts of data, to employ scientifically-valid treatment strategies as well as complementary and holistic strategies, to collaborate aggressively with other clinicians, and to help the client escape pain as quickly, as conveniently and as comfortably as possible.