Child Mental Health

• Addresses mental disorders, behavioral disorders, child abuse, trauma, disaster and advocacy issues. 

• Provides information including child mental health news, topics and research results. 

• Serves the needs of children, families and professionals along with the Child Advocate Network.
  

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News and Recent Information

Breast feeding and Resilience to Stress

Children's Health Insurance Crisis

Early Childhood and TV Viewing

Child and Adolescent Suicide at Highest Rate in Fifteen Years

Children and Medication - a multimodal presentation

Fighting Anorexia

Video on Helping Children Cope  

Tom Cruise’s Today Show Interview

Children's Health Cuts

Worried about antidepressants used in children? See ParentsMedGuide.org Resource

Depression and the Childhood Depression Inventory

FDA and Antidepressants

     Disaster help for parents and children

Mental Health Index

1. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD/ADD)

2. Autism and Asperger's Disorder

3. Bipolar Disorder in Children

4. Brain Injury

5. Calming the Injured Child - Issues related to disaster and trauma intervention

6. Child Abuse and Neglect

7. Childhood Schizophrenia - Diagnosis, characteristics and findings

8. Children’s Understanding Disease Processes - how kids come to understand disease processes, cause, and prevention

9. Depression in Children and Adolescents

10. Disaster - Helping Children Cope

11. Disruptive Behavior Disorders

12. Divorce and Children

13. Fetal Alcohol and Drug Exposure

14. Firesetting Behavior

15. Eating Disorders and Anorexia Nervosa  - Approaches to treatment and the reduction of relapse rates

16. Infant Mental Health - Infants and Toddlers

17. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

18. PANDAS: Identification and Possible Treatment

19. Posttraumatic Stress

20. Rett's Disorder - Past and Present : Diagnosis, characteristics and treatment

21. Schizophrenia

22. Selective Mutism - clinical features and treatment

23. Self-injurious Behavior

24. Sexual Abuse and Children

25. Social Phobia

26. Suicidal Behavior - Practice Parameters from the AACAP

27. Tourette's Syndrome or Disorder

28. Violence - Findings, prevention and intervention

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Topic List

• Helping Children Cope After  Disaster, Trauma or War
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder information resources include recent testimony in Pennsylvania or CHADD.
• Treatment update from Penn State's College of Medicine for Bipolar Disorder in Children
• Protocol for the Admission of Children to Psychiatric Treatment Facilities
• The Sexual Abuse Evaluation is a difficult area for most families, attorney, courts and mental health professionals to navigate.
• Children and families need to be aware of the legal, judicial and forensic proceedings that involve mental health issues.
• Agencies advocating for persons with developmental disabilities, mental illness and the client assistance programs are listed in State Protection and Advocacy Agencies.
• Psychiatric hospitalization of children is addressed in this fact sheet.
• Many psychiatric issues are addressed through the American Academy of Child Psychiatry Facts for Families.
• Mental health resources listed by the American Academy of Pediatrics
• Child Abuse Reporting

Research Findings

• Depakote in Children
• Risperdal in Children
• SSRI syndrome
• Seclusion of Children in Inpatient Treatment

Links to Mental Health Resources

• Resources on Child and Family Mental Health
• General Links and Resources

Contact Information for Child Mental Health:

About Child Mental Health and The Child Advocate

Electronic mail

General Information: ChildrensAdvocate@yahoo.com

Webmaster: cxp32@yahoo.com

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