Children may benefit from mental health medications, which may be helpful in treating autism, obsessive compulsive disorder or depression.
Everyone feels anxiety at times, but a person whose anxiety interferes with living a normal life may have an anxiety disorder, and it can be treated.
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that causes problems with perception, thought processing, and emotional responsiveness.
A child whose angry outbursts and aggressive behavior makes life difficult may have oppositional defiant disorder (ODD); it affects 16 percent of teens.
Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder that includes extreme mood shifts. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
Childhood depression is indicated by persistent feelings of sadness that interfere with the ability to function in daily life. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
A child or teen with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has intrusive, persistent thoughts and compulsions that make life hard at home and in school.
Suicide, whether spontaneous or planned, is a tragic act that has many long and far-reaching impacts.
Anxiety is the most common mental health disorder in children. Learning healthy ways to calm down and handle fears is an important life skill.
Psychological assessments of children examine learning, social, behavioral and personality development to plan for =mental health and educational needs.