Childhood depression affects about 5 percent of American children and adolescents. There are many effective treatment options for children and their families.
The breakup of parents doesn’t have to be catastrophic for children. While divorce is a loss, it can bring positive changes to a family when handled well.
Anxiety is the most common mental health disorder in children. Learning healthy ways to calm down and handle fears is an important life skill.
Children may benefit from mental health medications, which may be helpful in treating autism, obsessive compulsive disorder or depression.
Angry feelings often bubble into outbursts for children and teens. Parents may wonder whether their child's behavior is normal; Yale Medicine can help.
A child whose angry outbursts and aggressive behavior makes life difficult may have oppositional defiant disorder (ODD); it affects 16 percent of teens.
No two children develop in exactly the same way, but the phases of child development are, for a healthy child, logical and predictable.
A child who doesn't develop at the same rate as others of the same age may have a developmental delay; the problem may be present at birth or arise later.
Psychological assessments of children examine learning, social, behavioral and personality development to plan for =mental health and educational needs.
A learning disability can affect how a child learns to write, read and do math, as well as communication,social skills, attention, memory and coordination.