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Children and families have special issues regarding behavioral and emotional problems.

Mental Health Index

1. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD/ADD)
2. Autism Spectrum Disorder 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 A Disaster
• Find a child psychiatrist
• Children and Medication - a multimodal presentation
• 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.
• Child Abuse Reporting

Issues in Healthcare

• Find a child psychiatrist
• Insurance and Patient Rights Issues
• Frequently asked questions - FAQ
• Resources on Child and Family Mental Health

Related Topics

• Medical and Psychiatric

  The child's rights to medical care, psychiatric care and hospitalization.

• Educational

  The child's rights to public and private education, instruction and placement.

• Other Resources

• Child Mental Health

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