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When Larry Kestenbaum, clerk of Washtenaw County, Michigan, was in Lansing for a meeting recently, he saw something unfamiliar on the faces of the other clerks: pity. Colleagues from hard-pressed towns like Flint, Jackson and Kalamazoo were offering sympathy because, despite everything, they still had a local newspaper, while Ann Arbor, his county seat...
...have to do this all together, you cannot do it in pieces,” says Clarice J. Kestenbaum, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University. “I would just take a weekend retreat, and get the entire program shaped up, computerized, with connections between everyone, all together. One weekend would...
...Kestenbaum, a past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, says that there should be one mechanism for following students through various care options...
...There should be a record, saying, here, this student went to this doctor and then this doctor, and here’s a list,” Kestenbaum says. “There should be a list for students of everything that’s offered with a little description of the different therapies—it should all be in one place where you can see what’s available. Kids shouldn’t have to search it out on their own, they should be available to look at it, like on a grid...
...Kestenbaum says that only clinicians with expertise in both therapy and medication should be able to do the first evaluation—which she says is critical to getting a student on the right recovery path...