These Quick Links to The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists website will provide reliable, current information:
- Adolescent Development Part I
- Adolescent Development Part II
- Advocating For Your Child
- Afterschool Activities: Striking the Right Balance
- Alcohol Use in Families
- Anxiety and Children
- Attachment Disorders
- Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Bipolar Disorder In Children And Teens
- Bullying
- Child Abuse - The Hidden Bruises
- Chronic Illness and Children
- Complementary and Integrative Medicine
- Continuum of Mental Health Care
- Depression in Children and Teens
- Discipline
- Diversity and Culture in Child Mental Health Care
- Divorce and Children
- Domestic Violence and Children
- Driving and Teens
- Eating Disorders in Teens
- Foster Care
- Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Adolescents
- Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
- Grief and Children
- Know Your Rights: Consent and Confidentiality
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Parents
- Lying and Children
- Marijuana and Teens
- Medication: Preventing Misuse and Diversion
- Mental Health Insurance
- Mental Illness in Families
- Military Families
- Military Families: Coming Home
- Movies and Children
- Moving: Helping Children Cope
- Multiracial Children
- Music and Music Videos
- Normal or Not: When to Get Help
- Obesity In Children And Teens
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder In Children And Adolescents
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Panic Disorder In Children And Adolescents
- Parenting: Preparing For Adolescence
- Peer Pressure
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Psychotherapies For Children And Adolescents
- Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents
- Questions to Ask Before Psychiatric Hospitalization of Your Child or Adolescent
- Religion, Spirituality and Your Mental Health Care
- Residential Treatment Programs
- Responding To Child Sexual Abuse
- Role Models and Children
- Self-Injury In Adolescents
- Sex: Talking to your Child
- Sexual Abuse
- Sleep Problems
- Social Networking and Children
- Sports and Children
- Starting College with a Psychiatric Illness
- Stepfamily Problems
- Stress Management and Teens
- Substance Abuse Treatment For Children And Adolescents: Questions To Ask
- Talking To Kids About Mental Illnesses
- Teen Brain: Behavior, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
- Teen Suicide
- Teens: Alcohol And Other Drugs
- Threats by Children: When are they Serious?
- Tobacco And Kids
- Transitioning From High School to College With A Psychiatric Illness: Preparation
- Weight Gain from Medication: Prevention and Management
- When To Seek Help For Your Child
- Where To Find Help For Your Child