Dr. David Joseph Paster, MD

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Dr. David Joseph Paster, MD

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
That was the only time Billy tried to escape. Over the next several sessions, Paster was able to put together an evaluation of Billy that combined talking with his parents and teachers, observing him at school, standard developmental testing and a medical history. Paster diagnosed Billy as suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder-he couldn't concentrate, had too much energy and acted impulsively. Because ADHD is considered a physiological as well as a psychological problem, Paster prescribed Ritalin, a stimulant that is widely used to control hyperactivity. (Psychiatrists are the only mental health professionals qualified to prescribe medicine.) He suggested Billy attend a school with smaller classes and a tutoring approach, a school where Billy would get lots of attention and control. In sessions with Paster, Billy ignored the doctor's stock of toys; he preferred to sit in a chair and talk like an adult. "It was similar to an adult who comes in and intellectualizes all the time," Paster says. Billy spent a lot of time talking, which Paster says is a symptom of anxiety and stress. Billy told Paster: "I'm really mad at you." "That would sound good coming from an adult," says the psychiatrist, "but coming from a 6-year-old, it sounds like he's parroting somebody else." One day after less than a year in treatment, Paster got out his indoor basketball equipment, and he and Billy shot baskets. It wasn't exactly what the doctor had in mind in terms of play therapy-a more specific kind of play that helps expose a child's thought processes-but it was useful nonetheless. At first, according to his mother, Billy "really didn't try to make a basket, didn't dare to try to kick a ball, didn't want to take any risks. In David's office he could take the risk-eventually-to try and shoot the ball into the basket."

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Primary: Psychiatrist

Sub-Specialty: General

Additional Specialties: Pediatric Psychiatry, Psychiatry

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South Valley, Encino

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Physicians & Surgeons, Psychiatry, Mental Health Services, Physicians & Surgeons, Physicians & Surgeons, Pediatric-Psychiatry, Psychiatric Clinics

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Specialties: Pediatric Psychiatry, Psychiatry

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