Mental Health and Psychiatric Issues

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

Mental Health Index

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD/ADD)
Autism and Asperger's Disorder
Bipolar Disorder in Children
Brain Injury
Calming the Injured Child - Issues related to disaster and trauma intervention
Child Abuse and Neglect
Childhood Schizophrenia - Diagnosis, characteristics and findings
Children’s Understanding Disease Processes - how kids come to understand disease processes, cause, and prevention
Depression in Children and Adolescents
Disaster - Helping Children Cope
Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Divorce and Children
Fetal Alcohol and Drug Exposure
Firesetting Behavior
Eating Disorders and Anorexia Nervosa - Approaches to the reduction of relapse rates
Infants and Toddlers - Practice Parameters from the AACAP
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
PANDAS: Identification and Possible Treatment
Posttraumatic Stress
Rett's Disorder - Past and Present : Diagnosis, characteristics and treatment
Schizophrenia
Selective Mutism - clinical features and treatment
Self-injurious Behavior
Sexual Abuse and Children
Suicidal Behavior - Practice Parameters from the AACAP
Tourette's Syndrome or Disorder
Violence - Findings, prevention and intervention

Helping Children Cope After A Disaster
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