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When Your Child Worries

School Age, Young child
By Megan Allen, PhD, Licensed Psychologist
You put your daughter to bed hours ago, but at 11 PM  she comes running into your room saying, “I want to sleep with you.  I’m afraid.”  This has been going on for the past month even though she has always slept alone without any problem.   It is More...

Taming the Disorganized Child

Preteen/Teen, School Age
By Maria Deniston, MS, OTR/L and Jill Yochim, MA, CALT
James, a middle-schooler, comes home from a long day at school and looks forward to downtime playing video games.  After dinner, he searches for 15 minutes to find the scrap of paper where he wrote down his homework assignments, while his mother does the same, providing help that he More...

My Kid Is Fine: How Teen Depression Deceives Us

Preteen/Teen
By Katherine DeVaul, MD, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
Teen boy close-up
After Mike and his girlfriend of three years ended their relationship, his parents expected their son to be crushed.  The relationship had been a large part of Mike’s life and his girlfriend, Lori, had been like a member of the family.  Lori had hoped they would remain friends, but More...
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