Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with:
- Adjustment to challenges such as medical illness, parental divorce, and other losses
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD)
- Attachment and adoption issues
- Anxiety [panic, school phobia, separation anxiety, generalized anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD)]
- Autism Spectrum Disorders (Aspergers, and pervasive developmental disorders [PDD])
- Behavioral, oppositional and conduct disorders
- Eating disorders
- Forensic Psychiatry consultation (juvenile and criminal, family law [TPR, custody, adoption,abuse/trauma], and civil matters)
- Gifted children
- Infant and child development
- Mood (depression and bipolar) disorders
- Learning disorders
- Parenting and family concerns
- Psychosis, Schizophrenia
- Sleep issues
- Social relationships and bullying
- Substance abuse (alcohol and other drugs)
- Tourettes and tic disorders
- Trauma and abuse (PTSD)
- Trichotillomania and skin picking
Bill of Rights for Children and families coping with Mental Health Disorders: I believe that children who are struggling with mental disorders and their families have certain rights.