According to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (1999), one in five will experience signs and symptoms of a psychiatric disorder during the course...
Alcohol and Other Drugs in Teens
Experimentation with alcohol and drugs during adolescence is common. Unfortunately, teenagers often don’t see the link between their actions today and the consequences tomorrow. They...
Alcoholics & Children
One in five adult Americans lived with an alcoholic while growing up. Child and adolescent psychiatrists know these children are at greater risk for having...
Anxiety and Children
All children experience anxiety. Anxiety in children is expected and normal at specific times in development. For example, from approximately age eight months through the...