Children and Adolescents

Doug Haymaker Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist Children and Adolescents

Children and adolescents face special challenges in their young lives.

There are pressures to be part of the family, to fit in to a peer group, to master academics and athletics.

Children benefit from therapy, just as adults do. Children also suffer with anxiety, sadness and other emotional difficulties. Children are often acutely tuned in to family stress.

Some child problems, especially behavior problems and anxiety issues, are best addressed in a meeting with both child and parent. Some parents and children experience a "temperament mismatch" - resolving the mismatch issue can be of great benefit in the family.

AD/HD, under-achievement and learning problems, all can be helped by strategies designed to maximize the individual's strengths.

Adolescence is a tumultuous time - sometimes teens need an "objective" adult to talk to.

Children adolescents teenagers behavioir problems oppositional defiant disorder AD/HD ADD attention deficit