Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You ask a child psychologist on staff to visit with the child for
a few moments.
The child tells the psychologist that he was bullied repeatedly at school.
He had faked the stomach pains in order to avoid returning there.
By going to the psychologist, you avoided some costly tests and also got
to the root of the problem.
"We use child psychologists and therapists a lot in my practice, and I
use them in a couple of situations," says Dr. John Moore. "Number one, when
the child has a psychological condition -- anxiety, depression, something
like that, and it really interferes with their functioning in life, when it's
interrupting their social life, when they can't interact with friends and
with school in the way that they're capable of...
"And I use it in some children that have some diseases that
they need to cope with, some chronic abdominal pain, migraines, and other
more serious conditions that put a lot of stress on children," adds Dr. Moore.
"In those situations I use a therapist a lot as well."