When to Seek Help
Seek professional counseling when the problems listed below are persistent and impact your child's daily living:
• Sleep problems
• Change in appetite
• Aggressive behavior
• Cruelty to animals
• Social withdrawal
• Fearfulness
• Regressing to earlier stages of development such as bedwetting or soiling
• Problems with attention
• Frequent injuries
• Fire setting
• Prolonged sadness and/or excessive crying
• Property destruction
• Inappropriate sexual behavior
• Lying and stealing
• Self-mutilation (e.g., cutting)
• Concerns about use/abuse of alcohol and/or drugs
• Non-compliant behavior
• Academic decline
• Pulling out hair or eyelashes
By: Pam Capp, LMHC
Program Director, Outpatient Services
