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Child Behavior Disorders
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- Treatment
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- Children
- Teenagers
Latest News
- Latest News
- Asthma May Be Linked to Teenage Behavior Problems (06/15/2005, Reuters Health)
Overviews
- Overviews
- Development and Behavior (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Mental, Emotional, and Behavior Disorders in Children and Adolescents (Center for Mental Health Services)
- You and Your Child's Behavior (American Academy of Pediatrics)
Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Children's Threats: When Are They Serious? (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Also available in: Spanish - Know When to Seek Help for Your Child (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Also available in: Spanish
Treatment
- Treatment
- Approaches to Counseling and Therapy (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Finding a Therapist for Your Child's Emotional or Behavioral Problem (Nemours Foundation)
- Helping Your Child with Social Problems (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Also available in: Spanish
Specific Conditions
- Specific Conditions
- Aggressive Behavior (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Cheating (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Children and Adolescents with Conduct Disorder (Center for Mental Health Services)
- Children Who Are Shy, Rejected or Neglected (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Children Who Won't Go to School (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Also available in: Spanish - Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Also available in: Spanish - Children without Friends (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Disobedience (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Fighting the Biting (Nemours Foundation)
- Hair-Pulling Disorder (Trichotillomania) (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- My Child Is Shoplifting (Nemours Foundation)
- Self-Injury In Adolescents (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Also available in: Spanish - Truth about Temper Tantrums (Nemours Foundation)
- Understanding Violent Behavior in Children & Adolescents (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Also available in: Spanish
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- Family Guide to Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy and Drug Free (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)
- Helping the Child Who is Expressing Anger (Center for Mental Health Services)
- Myth of the Bad Kid (Center for Mental Health Services)
- Myth of the Bad Parent (Center for Mental Health Services)
- Teaching Your Child Self-Control (Nemours Foundation)
- Your Child's Habits (Nemours Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish
Clinical Trials
- Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Adolescent Behavior (National Institutes of Health)
Research
- Research
- Addressing Aggression in Early Childhood (Nemours Foundation)
- Breathing Problems during Sleep and Daytime Behavior Problems (Nemours Foundation)
- School-Based Program Promotes Positive Behavior, Reduces Risk Factors for Drug Use, Other Problems (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Directories
- Directories
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Referral Directory (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
- Directory of Psychiatrists Who Work in Schools (American Psychiatric Association) - Links to PDF
Organizations
- Organizations
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Center for Mental Health Services
- National Institute of Mental Health
Law and Policy
- Law and Policy
- Disabilities That Qualify Infants, Toddlers, Children, and Youth for Services Under the IDEA (National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities)
Also available in: Spanish - Services in School for Children with Special Needs: What Parents Need to Know (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Also available in: Spanish
Statistics
- Statistics
- America's Children 2002: Behavior and Social Environment Indicators (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics)
Teenagers
- Teenagers
- Cutting (Nemours Foundation)
- Shoplifting (Nemours Foundation)
- What Is Trichotillomania? (Nemours Foundation)