Toelating tot Vier Winde

In this @Ask_DrK_MD video, Dr. Sarah Klagsbrun, Executive Medical Director of Four Winds Hospital, talks about admitting your child to a psychiatric hospital.

To the parent whose child is about to be admitted into a psychiatric hospital: I got you. Parents, especially moms, are so great at feeling guilty. I’m Dr K, child psychiatrist, here to tell you there is no reason to feel guilty. Mental illness is biology, not bad parenting. Bringing your child to a psychiatric hospital is extremely courageous and due to love. Your treatment team is there to work with your child and you to help your child heal. So, lean on your treatment team and trust the process. We got you. Let us know how to best support you and your child.

In hierdie Vra Dr. K-video praat Dr. Sarah Klagsbrun, Uitvoerende Mediese Direkteur van Four Winds-hospitaal, oor die doelwitte van 'n psigiatriese hospitalisasie en hoe nuttig 'n psigiatriese opname kan wees.

In hierdie Vra Dr. K-video neem Dr. Sarah Klagsbrun, Uitvoerende Mediese Direkteur van Four Winds-hospitaal, jou binne die opnamegebou by Four Winds Katonah en verduidelik hoe 'n opname in 'n psigiatriese hospitaal is.

In this @Ask_DrK_MD video, Dr. Sarah Klagsbrun, Executive Medical Director of Four Winds Hospital, answers the question, what does a teen do all day in the hospital?

Parents often picture psychiatric units as cold, sterile halls, fluorescent lighting where patients sit isolated in rooms all day staring at walls. Not here. Patients attend morning goals group, attend school, enjoy recreational time either at our gym or outside. We have basketball courts, art therapy, and Oliver the Four Winds therapy dog loves visiting kids on each of the cottages. Our therapists run evidence-based DBT groups to teach patients coping skills. Our cottages are separated based on age and specific needs. So, little kids with little kids, teens with teens, and adults with adults. Staff are supervising patients day and night. Therapists and psychiatric prescribers meet with each patient individually as well as run groups. 

In hierdie Vra Dr. K-video praat Dr. Sarah Klagsbrun, Uitvoerende Mediese Direkteur van Four Winds-hospitaal, oor wanneer om 'n psigiatriese hospitalisasie vir jouself, jou kind of geliefde te oorweeg.

Wanneer 'n kind of volwassene in 'n psigiatriese hospitaal opgeneem word, beteken dit dat hulle midde-in 'n krisis is en die risiko loop om:

– verloor hul vriende

– druip uit die skool

– weier om skool by te woon

– hardloop weg van die huis af

– speel heeldag en nag videospeletjies 

– uitdagend, oneerbiedig wees, nie na gesagsfigure luister nie 

Kinders of volwassenes kan wees:

– plofbare woede-uitbarstings hê

– impulsief optree

– betrokke raak by gevaarlike gedrag

– deelneem aan selfbeserende gedrag

– selfmoordgedagtes ervaar 

1ste Wegneemete:

Psigiatriese medikasie is daar om 'n kind of volwassene te help om hanteringsvaardighede aan te leer. Sommige gedrag en simptome reageer nie op terapie alleen nie – as iemand drange het om hulself of ander skade aan te doen, of oorweldig word deur selfmoord- of negatiewe gedagtes, of plofbare woede-uitbarstings het, kan hulle nie die hanteringsvaardighede wat aan hulle geleer word, absorbeer of gebruik nie. 

2de wegneemete: 

Sommige psigiatriese siektes soos bipolêre versteuring en skisofrenie reageer nie op terapie alleen nie en kan mettertyd sterker word. As jy wag om met medikasie te behandel, vererger die simptome gewoonlik mettertyd en dan benodig jy meer medikasie en hoër dosisse om die simptome te behandel. 

3de Wegneemete:

Psigiatriese medikasie stel kinders en volwassenes in staat om so gou as moontlik terug te keer na hul normale gesonde basislyn, wat die doel van behandeling is. 

In hierdie @Ask_DrK_MD-video beantwoord Dr. Sara Klagsbrun, Uitvoerende Mediese Direkteur van Four Winds-hospitaal, die vraag: Sal my kind terapie by Four Winds kry?

In this @Ask_DrK_MD video, Dr. Sarah Klagsbrun, Executive Medical Director of Four Winds Hospital, answers the question, will my child pick up bad habits in a psychiatric hospital.

Parents worry about “symptom contagion” when they admit their child to an inpatient psychiatric hospital. Will my child learn more dangerous behaviors from their peers? In the hospital setting we have staff 24/7 helping children navigate peer, academic, social pressures, and how to handle a challenging situation when it arises. What better place than to have a child challenged and learn how to cope, so they are prepared for when the real world presents them with all sorts of challenges and exposes them to things on the internet you don’t even realize they are being exposed to. In those situations there is no therapist standing next to them to guide them. Many children have already been exposed to what you fear they might be exposed to in a hospital. And children who are not struggling are exposed to all sorts of things they never do because they’re okay. But when a child is struggling, they search for ways to help their suffering and experiment with what I call maladaptive coping skills, like cutting, vaping, or smoking marijuana. So you want the exposure to protect them from bad habits waiting for them outside the hospital setting. And, aggression is not contagious!