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She also demystifies and simplifies the process of separating psychiatric illness from the other more common behavioral patterns in children, particularly willfulness, answering the following questions: How is a parent to know which behaviors are bio-chemical and which are simply the result of willfulness? When should a parent seek a child psychiatrist’s help in medicating their child? How can you find a doctor you can trust? When is it more appropriate to use behavioral techniques?
Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Elizabeth’s professional insight helps families wade through the contradictory recommendations the media, the Internet, teachers, relatives, friends and neighbors, and non-specialist doctors provide.
The author and her husband, Tom Jozaitis, moved to Canyon Lake four years ago after their youngest daughter graduated from high school. “We were very tired of Chicago weather so we decided on Southern California for its climate and because we had a close friend in Palm Springs,” says Tom.
“Since we wanted to be within driving distance of Elizabeth’s work as Medical Director at the Children’s Emergency Services Unit in Riverside (CESU), we pulled up a map on the computer and looked at places in and around Riverside, Palm Springs, San Diego and Temecula,” he explains.
“We had always chosen vacations based on access to water as we like to go boating, or just sit and stare at the water for its beauty. Elizabeth found a great pair of real estate agents who recommended Canyon Lake; so she checked it out while on an interview in the area and fell in love with a little house on the East Bay. We made an offer and here we are.”
The couple has three daughters. One is in law school, graduating in April from the University of Michigan; one is an undergrad in her last year at UC Berkeley and the third is in grad school at USC. Tom is the CEO of VocRehab.com., which helps people (usually injured workers) return to work, via a software service product. He is also the owner and operator of CaliforniaReviews.com a review web site for posting opinions about local businesses pro or con, and local places to visit.
In addition to being the Medical Director for the Riverside CESU, Elizabeth has a private practice in Murrieta. She is a licensed practicing Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and a former teacher. She has conducted parenting seminars through hospitals, high schools and other organizations. She has also appeared on Oprah, ABC News and been featured in numerous publications, including the Chicago Tribune.
The concepts presented in “Should You Medicate Your Child’s Mind?” are born out of the clinical and personal experience, as one excerpt explains:
“After repeated encounters with children as young as three years old who had been diagnosed by their previous doctor multiple times, with simultaneous psychiatric illnesses and medicated with several different psychiatric medications, I knew something was wrong, As I sorted out each situation with each individual family they would ask me, ‘Where could I have found this information before the mistakes were made in my child’s treatment?’ Parents asked me to write a book to help them navigate the sea of mixed, often contradictory advice offered by well-meaning teachers, neighbors and hurried pediatricians. They complained that most authors generally take an all or nothing approach. Authors usually present the extremes. They will either vilify or glorify psychiatric medication. Finding a book that approaches the subject in reasonable way is not easy.”
As Dr. Drew Ross, M.D. noted in the Foreword of Elizabeth’s new book, “She has laid out the issues, the confusions, the problems and the solutions without getting into partisanship in the war. Her allegiance is to you and your child, to helping you to neither give your child medications he may not need nor to avoid them when they might help. In this book, your child gets to be your child rather than a poster kid for either side of the war going on in psychiatry.”
Those interested in learning more about Elizabeth’s book or how to contact her may go to shouldyoumedicateyourchildsmind.com, or call her office in Murrieta at 951-894-6900.
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