At what point would you recommend initiating psychotherapy or psychotropic medications to manage mood and anxiety symptoms following a new oncology diagnosis in pediatric patients?  

Perhaps the most important piece to this question is missing, and that is that more history is required to determine what to do with a recently diagnosed cancer patient. What was the patient’s psychiatric status pre-cancer? If the patient had undiagnosed mental health problems–anxi...

The Child Life team I worked with when I was working in Child adolescent psychiatry was well-versed in these concepts. They provided an off-ramp while in the hospital for both the child and the family. In fact, the goal was to treat the parents separately and the child separately, in addition to inc...