If a hospital tried to keep my child isolated away from me for almost a week, I would go batshit. Why do parents trust doctors to this degree? ETA: my parents took me to a therapist for a while in grade school. Based on that experience, I would never do the same with my child or recommend it to anyone else. Therapists are looking for problems and even a kid in the single-digit age bracket can easily manipulate them because of that. Screw psychiatry, talk to your kid yourself.