Friday Feedback: Behavioral Therapy for Common Conditions
Behavioral therapies are recommended before resorting to drugs in a number of common conditions, such as ADHD in young children and chronic insomnia in adults. But practitioners have objected that there are barriers to providing behavioral therapies to large numbers of patients and that drug treatments are simply more practical. We contacted a variety of experts in ADHD and sleep disorders via email to ask: What barriers of this sort have you seen in your own practice?
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Friday Feedback: Behavioral Therapy for Common Conditions
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