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Behavioral Pediatrics
Many young children and adolescents experience mental, emotional or behavioral issues.
Our highly trained team of doctors, nurses and technicians provides expertise in assessing and treating all types of psychological disorders in childhood and adolescence.
We work to help children and families understand these issues and develop individualized strategies to:
- Improve relationships
- Cope with stress
- Change habits or other factors that influence well-being
We use an interdisciplinary approach and rely heavily on cognitive-behavioral therapy to help children and adolescents develop better ways to handle daily problems. Our professional staff has a broad range of experience with behavior problems or problems associated with medical disorders, including:
- Adjustment to chronic pain
- Adjustment to medical conditions
- Adjustment to reaction disorders
- Aggressive behavior
- Anxiety disorders
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Bedtime behavior problems
- Child abuse and neglect
- Childhood fears and phobias
- Conduct disorders
- Coping with chronic diseases
- Encopresis
- Enuresis
- Food refusal and over-selectivity
- Habit disorders/tics
- Headaches
- Intermittent explosive disorder
- Mealtime behavior problems
- Mood disorder
- Noncompliance
- Poor self-esteem
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Recurrent abdominal pain
- School-related problems
- Sleep disorders
- Suicidal ideation
- Tantrums
- Toilet training
- Trichotillomania (hair pulling)
Parent child interaction therapy
Is your child displaying disruptive behavior? Parent child interaction therapy may help.