Clinicians who've added functional approaches to a conventional practice: what changed, and what surprised you?
Not a formal AMA, but opening the floor: if you started in a conventional psychiatric or pediatric practice and later incorporated functional/integrative approaches, what actually changed?
A few questions if you want a starting point:
- What made you start looking outside standard treatment algorithms?
- What's something that surprised you, either more effective or less effective than expected?
- How do you talk to patients about combining approaches without sounding like you're dismissing conventional care?
- What's been the hardest part clinically, or in terms of colleague/institutional pushback?
Open to both adult- and pediatric-focused clinicians, curious how the answers compare across populations. Students and researchers, feel free to ask questions in the comments.
u/CindyLu2458 — 14 days ago