: 44 Nassau Street
Suite 375
Princeton, NJ 08542
A neurodiversity- guided approach to psychiatric treatment
Meet Dr. Adam Hauser
Everyone is on the spectrum - that’s why they call it a spectrum, which by definition is evolution succeeding. ADHD and Autism are not disorders, but downsides to a diverse, problem-solving ability. Being good at certain things that most people are not makes things that most people find easy, like friends and school, harder than they’re supposed to be. To put it differently, something that has an upside isn’t always a problem, and depending on what you’re doing, isn’t necessarily a disorder. My approach is to help people understand why others communicate the way they do, and how to start saying what they want, need, think, feel, and know, in a way that works.
Neurodiversity Specialist
Neurodiversity explains that humanity’s success as a species is thanks to a having central nervous system that can diversify itself to solve problems. This diversity in problem solving also complicates the ways emotional needs get expressed and met between people, leading to wants and needs not getting understood or read correctly, and, ultimately, psychiatric symptoms occurring. My approach to treating my patients’ symptoms is by teaching how to understand that diversity, how to read friends and others’ emotions better, and to know how to say their wants and needs to people with whom they are neurodivergent. Medication is prescribed based on evidence-based practice guidelines at low doses, guided and combined with an expertise on how people with different neurotypes have different, but predictable, responses to different medications
Practice Areas
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Psychiatric Evaluation
Diagnosing behavioral, emotional, developmental, and mental health disorders in children, teens, and young adults.
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Neurodiversity makes it difficult to communicate wants, needs, thoughts, and feelings, which I teach, along with helping to be able to read others.
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Psychopharmacology
I provide a personalized approach to identifying and prescribing the right medication that keeps patients safe.
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Treatment works better when parents are involved and they have an opportunity to speak openly and frankly while I guide without judging.
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Psychotherapy can help you learn healthy behaviors, develop positive thought patterns and identify solutions to your problems
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Parent-Child Therapy
Parents and kids get lost in translation and I work with the family together to help understand each other better and be more effective communicators.