dd has been diagnosed with Conversion Disorder (when psychological distress produces physical symptoms). She is badly affected -using a wheelchair as she cannot walk and needing help with everyday tasks as she has limited use of her arms. After quite a wait she was eventually assessed by a psychotherapist at CAMHS -psychotherapy being the treatment of choice for conversion disorder.
The psychotherapist concluded that dd was not suitable for this kind of therapy as she didn't want to talk about her feelings and became positively uncomfortable when asked to do so.
At a follow up meeting with the psychotherapist she gave dh and I her reasoning and say that she and colleagues would have to think carefully and get further advice about next steps. A meeting to discuss this was arranged for next Monday. As parents we were not invited. If this was an internal CAMHS clinical discussion it might be fair enough but it is also being attended by physio, OT and SENCO and perhaps other educational profs.
I have spoken to the psychotherapist on the phone and said that I felt I needed to be present and know what was being suggested in that kind of meeting. She offered to hear and represent my views and I'm sure she will but I can't respond to others' input if I'm not there.
I got a lot of flannel about careful consideration of therapeutic options. I doubt the SENCO for example is going to have better input into that discussion than I could.
Am I right to be so annoyed (to put it politely) about this and what can I do to ensure that it doesn't happen again?
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I'm being excluded from multi-agency meeting about dd and not happy about it.
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NoHaudinMaWheest · 18/07/2014 21:21
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