Featured Publications
CMHS: Your Child's Mental Health What Every Family Should Know
It's easy for parents to recognize when a child has a high fever. A child's mental health problem may be more difficult to identify. Mental health problems can't always be seen. But the symptoms can be recognized.
Publication Number: CA-0001
CMHS: Conduct Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Children with conduct disorder repeatedly violate the personal or property rights of others and the basic expectations of society. A diagnosis of conduct disorder is likely if the behavior continues for a period of 6 months or longer. Because of the impact conduct disorder has on the child and his or her family, neighbors, and adjustment at school, conduct disorder is known as a "disruptive behavior disorder."
Publication Number: CA-0010
CMHS: Mental, Emotional, and Behavior Disorders in Children and Adolescents
This fact sheet describes mental, emotional, and behavioral problems that can occur during childhood and adolescence and discusses related treatment, support services, and research. 1996.
Publication Number: CA-0006
CMHS: Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Young people with an anxiety disorder typically are so afraid, worried, or uneasy that they cannot function normally. Anxiety disorders can be long lasting and can interfere greatly with a child's life.
Publication Number: CA-0007
CMHS: Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children
A goal of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and Their Families is to improve the delivery of mental health services and supports to children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances and their families.
Publication Number: CA-0013
CMHS: Helping the Child Who Is Expressing Anger
Too often the daily news confirms that children and teens can be violent, even deadly. As parents, families, teacher's and members of the community, what can we do to help children cope with angry feelings--from frustration to rage?
Publication Number: CA-0032
CMHS: School Violence Prevention
Youth violence extracts an enormous toll on the Nation's resources. The CMHS initiative on school violence focuses on the collective involvement of families, communities, and schools to build resiliency to disruptive behavior disorders (for example, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).
Surgeon General: Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General
This Surgeon General's report seeks to focus on action steps that all Americans can take to help address the problem of youth violence and continue to build a legacy of health and safety for our young people and the Nation as a whole.
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