Child & Adolescent Mental Health | Child Psychiatry Today

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Development & Assessment

Adapting Evidence to This Child

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Cognitive Development and Youth Sports Performance

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What Makes a Child Different From an Adult in Mental Health Care

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Building Resilience Against Negative Peer Influence

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Creating a Positive Chore System at Home

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Featured Mental Health Guides

Source-checked explainers for parents, educators, and clinicians

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Development & Assessment

Early Intervention in Children’s Mental Health

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Breaking the stigma: Talking about depression in high school

Breaking the Stigma: Talking About Depression in High School

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Internet Use and Social Media

Technology and Toddlers: Setting Healthy Screen-Time Boundaries

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Child playing a soft xylophone with a music therapist

Autism Spectrum Disorders Development & Assessment

Early Intervention for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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Digital Life & Media

Screen time, social media, and adolescent wellbeing

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Internet Use and Social Media

Balancing Screen Time and Offline Play

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Parent discussing screen rules with a child near a window

Internet Use and Social Media

Encouraging Children to Engage in Offline Activities

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Parent discussing screen rules with a child near a window

Internet Use and Social Media

Digital Detox for Children: Reducing Screen Time and Encouraging Play

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Parent and child co-op gaming together

Digital Life & Media Internet Use and Social Media

How Video Games Can Strengthen the Bond Between

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Conditions & Symptoms

Clear guides to signs, assessment, and when to seek care

Clinician reviewing an ADHD care plan with a parent and child

Medical Conditions

ADHD and Coexisting Medical Conditions

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Reflective teen sitting alone near a bedroom window in soft dusk light

Navigating teenage blues

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Intellectual Disability

Academic Support for Children with Intellectual Disabilities

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Attachment Disorders

Fostering Healthy Attachments Between Children and Caregivers

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Development & Assessment

Formulation Before Labels: How Clinicians Build a Working Picture

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Development & Assessment

When Treatment Isn’t Working: Logjams and Next Moves

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Development & Assessment

Common Misconceptions Families Bring to Child Psychiatry

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The Child Behind the Symptom: A Practical Guide for Parents and Clinicians

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Conditions & Symptoms Development & Assessment

How Clinicians Think About a Child Without Reducing Them to a Diagnosis

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Development & Assessment

Selective Mutism: Assessment Without Forcing Speech

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The Art of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry by Jonathan Williams and Peter Hill (Cambridge University Press)

Books Development & Assessment Research & Evidence

The Art of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2025)

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Books Research & Evidence

Lewis’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (5th ed., 2017)

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