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behavioural psychologists (sussex)

clairey

Hi, apologies if this is in the wrong section, wasn't quite sure where to put it!

Due to lack of interest from community paeds/CAMHS we've ended up going down the private route with our 8 year old who has HFA

He suffers from anxiety/stress/anger issues and has lately started saying that he wishes he was dead, which I think is his way of telling us that he just can't cope with things right now and he wants to escape it. We're having major behaviour issues mainly at home but also creeping in at school too (where previously he has been "a delight" to teach!!)

We saw Dr Blincow (psych) at the Priory, who referred us to a behavioural psychologist closer to where we live but unfortunately she is giving up practicing! argh!

SOOO... what I really want to ask is whether anyone can recommend a good behavioural psychologist in the South-East (we're in W.Sussex but happy to travel)

thanks!

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  • Anything I feed my son has a positive or negative effect on his behaviour.  Have you tried keeping a log book on what he eats and then seeing how his behaviour goes.  Many children with autism suffer behaviour problems due to food intollerances and sometimes a food intollerance wont show up for 3 days after the person with autism has eaten it.  I find that if I keep giving certain types of foods then my son will react either within an hour or hours, or the same foods will cause problems after 3 days if I keep giving them.

    They wanted to put my son on strong medication but once I started to address his real health gut-brain problems because the gut is linked to the brain we started to overcome some of his negative behaviours. 

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  • Anything I feed my son has a positive or negative effect on his behaviour.  Have you tried keeping a log book on what he eats and then seeing how his behaviour goes.  Many children with autism suffer behaviour problems due to food intollerances and sometimes a food intollerance wont show up for 3 days after the person with autism has eaten it.  I find that if I keep giving certain types of foods then my son will react either within an hour or hours, or the same foods will cause problems after 3 days if I keep giving them.

    They wanted to put my son on strong medication but once I started to address his real health gut-brain problems because the gut is linked to the brain we started to overcome some of his negative behaviours. 

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