Bedwetting: Why we need behavioral therapies

A sad young girl. (Courtesy)

I recently had an eight-year-old who was referred by the paediatrician for bedwetting. He had ruled out a medical cause of the problem and recommended a psychological assessment and psychotherapy.

This reminded me of the kind of ridicule, isolation and abuse we used to inflict on other children with bed-wetting problems, oblivious to the psychological trauma we were inflicting at the time.