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Rainbow Forest Clinic
Rainbow Forest Day Care Center
Appointments
Tue-Fri:10am-19pm
Sat :
For Children & Young People
We offer mental health care for children and young people aged under 18 years, who present with school refusal, developmental delay, depression, anxiety, psychological trauma, self-harm, and more.
We emphasize the importance of psychotherapy rather than medication.
The clinic provides psychological tests, making a medical diagnosis and prescribed medication.Day Care Center, which is run by Uni Care Sakano, Ltd.
Doctor's appointment
Every patient needs to make an appointment to see a doctor.
The doctor offers you50 minutes for yourfirst appointment, and30 minutes forthe following visits.
As you will have to fill in many forms at your first appointment, please arrive at the clinic30 minutes before the booking time.
You will need to bring yourinsurance card, child benefit card, a mother-child health book, letters and documents from school.
If your condition is not considered appropriate for our clinic, we may not accept your care.
What we treat
Psychological tests
We offer psychological tests and developmental checks for children over 18 months. All tests are provided by a doctor and you will receive a report.
Health insurance is available for these tests.
If you need formal documents, the following fee will be applied.
- Medical certificate, Certificate for Special Education Needs, Certificate for Payment for Services and Support for Persons with Disabilities;2,050 yen
- Certificate for mental disability, Certificate for disability pension, Certificate for Child Rearing Allowance:5,400 yen
Medication
In Japan, health insurance does not formally cover most psychiatric medication for children under 18 years. However, prescriptions are still routinely provided in most child psychiatric clinics without robust evidence. In this circumstance, we take UK NICE Guidelines into account for our treatment in order to offer the evidence-based treatment as possible. As a result, our prescriptions are very limited compared to other psychiatric clinics. If you are referred to us from other clinics, please appreciate that some of your prescriptions may not be provided at our clinic.
Also, we do not offer blood tests or electrocardiogram, which you will need in order to take medication. If you are prescribed medication at our clinic, you will need to undertake those tests at your nearest general clinic, at least once a year.
<Medication we doNOT usually prescribe >
- Benzodiazepines
- Antipsychoticsexcept for risperidone, quetiapine, aripiprazole, and olanzapine
- Antidepressantsexcept for citalopram and sertraline
- Lithium, Carbamazepine
Psychotherapy
We offer Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), Mentalisation based treatment for adolescents (MBT-A), Social skills training, Parenting programs, etc. They are provided at theDay Care Center.
