This site reflects the efforts of Kristopher Kaliebe, MD. Three of his colleagues deserve special mention. Kristopher is a Board certified Psychiatrist trained in both Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Forensics Psychiatry. Kristopher lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Kristopher is an Assistent Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at LSU School of Medicine.
This web site is in no way affiliated with Lousiana State University, LSU Department of Psychiatry or any other group or organization.
The "Father's Little Helpers" creators represent a diverse set of Psychiatrists.
Christian, also a pediatrician, was raised in Brazil. After training in the states, he spent the majority of his career in Brazil before returning to grace America with his presence. Christian has specialty training at Harvard and Mayo Clinic and is the author of many books back in Brazil. He has particular expertise working with developmentally disabled children. Christian currently practices in Northern New Jersey. Christian rivals Kristopher as the most outrageous and politically incorrect. He is a wise man with extensive professional and personal experience. He is a wonderful dad!
Father's Little Helpers also includes a forensically trained adult psychiatrist, Tom. Tom may not have special training in Child Psychiatry, but has something many "experts" lack: common sense. Tom is a Renaissance Man, great athlete, excellent artist, top notch psychiatrist, great dad and a heck of lot of fun. Tom no longer resides in New Orleans, and I miss him a lot.
Jim is last but not least. Jim runs a thriving Mental Health Practice in New Mexico. He treats both children and adults. He is our "family systems" specialist, as he better be, with 11 siblings and with three (beautiful) young children of his own. Jim is a devoted dad, a great thinker and, again, a heck of a lot of fun.
BELOW IS A LIST OF ACTUAL PRACTICING PSYCHIATRISTS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS THAT ARE PROs IN MY BOOK
Elizabeth Roberts, MD - Elizabeth Roberts, MD Author of Should You Medicate Your Child's Mind - A Child Psychiatrist Makes Sense of Whether to Give Kids Psychiatric Medication. Dr Roberts thoughtfully details different diagnoses and types of medication used for emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents. She provides advice on how to find the right doctor, what questions to ask and how to advocate for yourself and your child.
Dr. Roberts also has an excellent chapter in Bipolar Children: Cutting Edge Controversy, Insight and Research edited by Sharna Olfman. Dr. Robert's experience that echoes mine: many parents and communities fail to create healthy environments for children. When things don't work out for the child, Psychiatrists and other physicians are over-using medications in an unsafe way. Just as importantly, this inappropriate mental health care fails to address the core problems, such as ineffective parenting, dysfunctional schools and hostile communities.
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http://http://www.drelizabethroberts.com/)
John Rosemond, PhD - Dr. Rosemond recognizes that parents must lead. He has common sense and wit. His audio and video presentations are excellent. He is supportive of religion and traditional parenting. Mental health has a history of animosity toward religion. We, often, are the ones who are not tolerant. I hope this changes. The "experts" are not tolerant of traditional parenting. Dr. Rosemond is a direct challenge to parenting "experts" who claim to stand behind science (they usually don't). (
http://www.rosemond.com/)
Larry Diller, MD - Author of three excellent books
Running on Ritalin, Should I Medicate my Child, and
The Last Normal Child. Dr. Diller has been in the trenches treating children with emotional and behavior problems. He details how parenting and mental health attitudes have changed over the last 20 years. He talks about over-medication and how solving family oriented problems is often more humane and effective than medications. (
http://www.docdiller.com)
Raymond DiGiuseppe PhD- Director of Professional Education at the Albert Ellis Institute; Professor and Chairman of Psychology Department, St. John’s University. Dr DiGiuseppe doesn't have many products aimed at parents or patients, but they are superior. (Father's Little Helper has reviewed every audiotape, they are all great, order at REBT.org.) His "Coping with Parenting" and "Coming to Terms with your Parents" are especially excellent. Ray balances scholarship and common sense.
www.rebt.org/
Leonard Sax, MD, PhD - Author of
Boy's Adrift,
The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Men and Underachieving Young Men. Boys Adrift is on target with trends that have caused the problems for so many of our boys and young Men. Sax also is part of a movement to have a more reasonable dialogue on gender differences and to give up our collective adult fantasies that boys and girls should be treated exactly the same. That doesn't makes sense, they are different!
www.boysadrift.com/
Dr Thomas Phalen, PhD - His book
1,2,3 Magic Effective Discipline for children 2 -12 is the best book on parenting technique: practical and without incoherent theory. The video version is especially easy to absorb and perfect for busy parents who want to reduce inappropriate behavior. (
http://parent-magic.com/)
William Rollnick, PhD and Stephen Miller PhD Drs. Rollnick and Miller working with substance abusers, developed an approach called Motivational Interviewing. Motivational interviewing is a method for growing motivation to change. This method is informed by adult learning and "stages of change models". It is replacing Medicines traditional: "do as you are told" approach.
In the near futures I hope to see more of this kind of programs dealing with families and children's issues.
http://motivationalinterview.org/
Scott Shannon, MD -- Dr Shannon is a child psychiatrist who utilizes a "holistic" approach. His web site Wholeness.com and book
Please Don't Label My Child show he has looked at the science. He also has enough sense to know our current psychiatric diagnostic system and treatment methods are broken. He emphasizes the environment, rather than problems in the child's brain, cause the majority of behavioral and emotional problems Child Psychiatrists encounter.
His examples are very similar to many of the patients I encounter: medications thrown at children with no other approach used.
http://www.wholeness.com/
Sally Satel, MD Dr Satel is one of only a few psychiatrists willing to take unpopular public stances on important issues. Co-author of
One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance and author of
PC MD, How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine.
http://www.sallysatelmd.com/
Marsha Linahan Phd - Marsha Linahan she has done a wonderful job of bring together "Eastern" Mindfulness and "Western" Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Her Dialectical Behavioral therapy is a wonderful approach that has been proven to work in some of our toughest patients. Marsha says we must radically accept ourselves, plus realize that we need to change. This is a humane approach that builds patients practical skills.
http://www.behavioraltech.com/index.cfm/
James S. Gordon, MD - Two great resources, Dr Gordon and The Center for Mind Body Medicine. The "CMBM" is an excellent web site, and offers a much more humanistic view of how to deal with emotional and behavioral problems. James S. Gordon, MD, is the founder & director of The Center for Mind Body Medicine. He also has a wonderful holistic book on depression. Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression
http://www.cmbm.org//
