Adults aren’t the only people that need mental health services. Children can suffer mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and other conditions, just like adults.

Children often suffer from depression, anxiety, or other mental health conditions because of moving, changing schools, losing friends, or death of a close family member.

Your child can benefit from children’s mental health services if having difficulty in school, anxiety about school or social activities, frequent aches and pains, fits of temper or rage, frequent nightmares, or thoughts about self-harm or suicide.

Your pediatrician can perform a mental health screening and identify and help treat fear and anxiety disorders, sleeping and eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and manic or clinical depression through medications, counseling, and relaxation techniques.