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Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Challenges in Kids and Teens

Family Resource Brief

Here you will find links to find care, services, and support and websites about emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges in kids and teens. A separate section presents websites about babies and young kids. Another lists websites for teens.

Care, Services, and Support

Websites

Babies and Young Kids

For Teens

Learn more about emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges in kids and teens and autism spectrum disorders, bullying, child maltreatment, coping with trauma and loss, domestic violence, early childhood, inappropriate use of seclusion and restraints, juvenile justice, kids and teens with special health care needs, medications, military families, parental depression and other mental health concerns, screening, suicide prevention and tobacco, alcohol, and substance use.

Need more information? Use the collection of resources that library staff have put together for you and your family.



Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Challenges in Kids and Teens: Family Resource Brief, 2nd ed. (July 2011). (Updated: November 2014).

Author: Susan Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S., MCH Digital Library.
Reviewers: Lauren Agoratus, M.A., Family Voices and Family-to-Family Health Information Resource Center at the Statewide Parent Advocacy Network of N.J.; Olivia Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Digital Library; Judi Siegel, L.I.C.S.W., Children's Hospital Boston; Sandy Swan, M.L.S., M.P.H., C.H.I.S., Phil Johnson Historic Archives and Research Library.
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Digital Library.

The MCH Digital Library is one of six special collections at Geogetown University, the nation's oldest Jesuit institution of higher education. It is supported in part by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under award number U02MC31613, MCH Advanced Education Policy with an award of $700,000/year. The library is also supported through foundation and univerity funding. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.