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We're recording, and I just wanted to introduce you to everyone, if that's okay.

I just wanted to give a little bit of your bio.

Dr. Jaffe is a board certified child and adolescent

psychiatrist, and he's an associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Mount

Santa Hospital here in New York City, although I'm not in New York City, so I don't know why I just

said that. And he's the program director for the

Child and Adolescent Fellowship, as well as the psychiatric director of the children's

integrated pediatric and psychiatry clinic and school-based program in East Harlem, serving

our city's youth, and the director of the Mount Sinai-Torrette Association of America's Center of

Excellence. He's currently leading research trials looking at novel

treatments for Tourette's disorder and ADHD. And today we're going to talk about some of the

ways that parents and caregivers can think about how to take steps to get support for kids who they feel are experiencing.

We're going to talk specifically about ADHD and anxiety. But in general, if you are

concerned that there is something beyond a subclinical diagnosis, how do we understand talking about treatment, especially because

right now there's a real conversation happening culturally, which is there's too much medication

or there is no access and there isn't enough medication and what does all of this mean?

And I think it can make parents so scared and confused about what to listen to.

So that's what we're talking about.

And Dr. Jaffe, can you just maybe give us your overview of how parents can think about when to seek support and how to think

about that support, whether it needs to go in the direction of psychiatry and medication.

Yeah, I mean, I think you set the landscape nicely, right, which is that it's overwhelming

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