Facts For Families

Facts for Families

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists website will answer your questions about children and families: Facts for Families. These Quick Links provide reliable, current information:

• Adolescent Development Part 1
• Adolescent Development Part II
• Adopted Children
• Advocating For Your Child
• Afterschool Activities: Striking the Right Balance
• Alcohol Use in Families
• Anxiety and Children
• Aspergers Disorder
• Attachment Disorders
• Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Bedwetting
• Bipolar Disorder In Children And Teens
• Bullying
• Child Abuse - The Hidden Bruises
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists
• Children Having Children
• Chronic Illness and Children
• College Students with ADHD
• Complementary and Integrative Medicine
• Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation
• Concussions and Children
• Conduct Disorder
• Continuum of Mental Health Care
• Day Care: Making it a Good Experience
• Death of Pets: Talking to Children
• Delirium in Children and Adolescents
• Depression in Children and Teens
• Disaster: Helping Children Cope
• Discipline
• Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
• Diversity and Culture in Child Mental Health Care
• Divorce and Children
• Domestic Violence and Children
• Drinking Alcohol in Pregnancy (Fetal Alcohol Effects)
• Driving and Teens
• Eating Disorders in Teens
• Encopresis: Problems with Soiling and Bowel Control
• Fighting And Biting
• Finding Mental Healthcare for Children of Immigrants
• Firearms and Children
• Foster Care
• Gangs and Children
• Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Adolescents
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
• Grief and Children
• Hair Pulling (Trichotillomania)
• Hearing Voices and Seeing Things
• HIV/AIDS in Children and Adolescents
• Home Alone Children
• Intellectual Disabilities
• Internet Use in Children
• Know Your Rights: Consent and Confidentiality
• Lead Exposure In Children Affects Brain And Behavior
• Learning Disorders
• 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
• News and Children
• 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
• Parents with Cancer: Tips for Talking to Kids
• Peer Pressure
• Pets And Children
• Physical Punishment
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Psychiatric Medication For Children And Adolescents Part I - How Medications Are Used
• Psychiatric Medication For Children And Adolescents Part III - Questions To Ask
• Psychiatric Medication For Children And Adolescents: Part II - Types Of Medications
• 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
• Schizophrenia In Children
• School Refusal
• School Services for Children with Special Needs: Know Your Rights
• 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
• Starting School
• Stealing in Children and Adolescents
• 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
• Telepsychiatry and Your Child
• Terrorism and War: How to Talk to Children
• Threats by Children: When are they Serious?
• Tic Disorders
• Tobacco And Kids
• Transitioning From High School to College With A Psychiatric Illness: Preparation
• TV Violence and Children
• Video Games and Children: Playing with Violence
• Violent Behavior in Children and Adolescents
• WatchingTV/Screen Time and Children
• Weight Gain from Medication: Prevention and Management
• When To Seek Help For Your Child
• Where To Find Help For Your Child