3, – 13 These clinical presentations can be distinguished from the emotional and behavioral patterns of typically developing children by their symptoms, family history, and level of impairment and, in some disorders, physiologic signs. These children may demonstrate impairment across multiple domains, including social interactions, problematic parent–child relationships, physical safety, inability to participate in child care without expulsion, delayed school readiness, school problems, and physical health problems in adulthood. 2 Children with emotional, behavioral, and social relationship problems (“mental health problems”), as well as their families, experience distress and can suffer substantially because of these problems. 1 An additional 1.5% of children have an autism spectrum disorder, the management of which has been reviewed in a separate report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). 10.1542/peds.2016-3025Īt least 8% to 10% of children younger than 5 years experience clinically significant and impairing mental health problems, which include emotional, behavioral, and social relationship problems. Voigt Addressing Early Childhood Emotional and Behavioral Problems. Contompasis, Damon Russell Korb, Laura Joan McGuinn, Robert G. Levine, Ada Myriam Peralta-Carcelen, Peter Joseph Smith, Nathan J.

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