Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz

Episode overview

Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz (The Scaffold Effect) is a psychiatrist and founder of the Child Mind Institute. Dr. Koplewicz joins the Armchair Expert to discuss child mental health advocacy, the controversy of medication as treatment for children, and how he deals with parents who don't believe in child psychiatry. Dr. Koplewicz and Dax discuss the problem with calling children normal or abnormal, how young people use alcohol and marijuana to self-medicate their social anxiety, and how dyslexia can be seen as a gift. Dr. Koplewicz talks about how people's attitudes towards science has changed, how certain prescriptions can affect a child's development as an adult, and the new film, Dear Evan Hansen.

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1. 0:00welcome welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on Expert I'm Dan Shepard I'm joined by Mr Mouse hi there hi there
2. 46:38might be life is challenging teens are hormonal angsty and scared of the future but these are always temporary and
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