Is There a Med For That?
Is There a Med For That? is a podcast featuring Duncan Gill, MD and Victoria Lee, LCMHC, discussing child and adolescent psychiatry, diagnosis, medication, parenting, and mental health. Combining clinical experience, humor, and perspective, the podcast explores everything from diagnosis and medication to family conflict, independence, anxiety, and what is actually “normal” growing up.
While new episodes of Is There a Med For That? are no longer being produced, the archive remains available for listeners. Duncan Gill’s current podcast, The Direction Podcast, continues the conversation with a broader focus on parenting, adolescence, education, mental health, and human development.
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Episodes
Jul 27, 2022
Jul 27, 2022
29 min
Vicki and Duncan introduce the Behavioral Guidelines, cornerstone of their work with kids at Direction and their families. They discuss how every group / society / family has a "social code," whether or not it is made explicit. Choosing the right social code for your family is critical in turning a parent-versus-child relationship at home into a cooperative one.
Jul 21, 2022
Jul 21, 2022
31 min
A review of so-called "Levels of Care," or different tiers of services available to struggling kids and their parents. Dunc and Vicki cover the categories of outpatient treatment, peer-support services, group therapy, intensive outpatient programs and partial hospitalization programs, inpatient units, and residential programs.
Jul 21, 2022
Jul 21, 2022
25 min
The importance of role-modeling the adult you want your child to become. Dunc and Vicki talk about three fundamental ways kids learn, and how learning through instruction is the least effective.
Jul 21, 2022
Jul 21, 2022
20 min
Medication and non-medications strategies for dealing with kids who suffer from anxiety. Dunc and Vicki talk about "anxiety" versus "fear," anxiety as a symptom versus a "disorder," how meds can help, and how doing what makes you anxious is usually the best cure.
Jul 21, 2022
Jul 21, 2022
24 min
The importance of taking space when at your wit's end with your child. Dunc and Vicki talk about how it can help keep you sane, avoid engaging in battle with an adversary with more energy than you, and also model for your child mature ways to deal with stressful situations.
Jul 14, 2022
Jul 14, 2022
24 min
Duncan Gill, MD, and Victoria Lee, MLADC, LCMHC, explain who they are, why they made this podcast, and why you might want to listen.
Is There a Med for That?
The podcast about teen mental health and behavioral problems, and what to do about them. Our hosts are Duncan Gill, MD, child psychiatrist, and Victoria Lee, MLADC, LCMHC. They draw upon their many years working together with youth struggling with all sorts of problems, from daughters arguing with their parents to sons with bipolar disorder. Warm, informative, and funny, this podcast is for anyone lucky enough to have children.