Everyday Mental Health for Military Families

An APA expert answers common questions about Eating Disorders

Helping Children and Families Thrive

A booklet with answers to frequently asked questions about the treatment of mental disorders in children — includes a medications chart. (2004)

This site provides information on Children's Mental Health, as well as Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.

This site provides information and resources about a variety of topics in relation to mental health.

This site provides information for parents on parenting teens.

If you were to ask a dozen people to define stress, or explain what causes stress for them, or how stress affects them, you would likely get 12 different answers to each of these requests. The reason for this is that there is no definition of stress that everyone agrees on, what is stressful for one person may be pleasurable or have little effect on others and we all react to stress differently. That's easily illustrated by the list of 50 Common Signs And Symptoms Of Stress noted under Effects Of Stress and the attached diagram illustrating how it affects different parts of the body.

According to the Report of the Surgeon General, more than 14 million children and adolescents in the United States, or 1 in 5, have a mental health disorder. Below is information to assist health care clinicians, families, and communities in promoting mental health and addressing children's behavioral and mental health issues.

ODD is a conduct disorder that is characteristically seen in children younger than 9 or 10 years old. The child shows markedly defiant, disobedient, provocative behavior.

Information on getting care, types of treatment, and types of behavioral health providers can be found on this site.