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Blog post 04.13.2020

COVID-19 Lockdown and Sports - How to Reduce Anxiety

If you are like most families with young children, these past few weeks have been filled with playing simple games, such as who can run the fastest from one side of the room to the other, or who can accurately recite the alphabet backwards.

Blog post 02.08.2023

Keep Your Mental Health in the Game: Therapy and Support for Athletes

Athletes will continue to work hard, push themselves, and make their bodies do things many of us can only marvel at, but the attention and awareness to mental health in the field of sports gives them a fighting chance with conditions like anxiety and depression.

Blog post 08.10.2023

Everything You Wanted to Know About IOPs for Pediatric OCD

Intensive programs for OCD can serve as a bridge between different levels of care, specifically as a step-up from weekly outpatient therapy or as a step-down from partial hospitalization/residential programs.

Blog post 11.28.2023

7 Tips on Showing Up When a Loved One is Undergoing Gender Transition

Someone you love or care for very much has shared with you that they want to “transition”. What does it mean and what do you do now?

Blog post 02.25.2022

Celebrating BIPOC Mental Health Trailblazers

ADAA Executive Director Susan K. Gurley celebrates the mental health trailblazers within BIPOC communities.

Webinar 09.18.2020

Anxiety and Worry in Youth - 2020 Fall Forum

The 2020 ADAA Virtual Fall Forum focuses on anxiety and worry in youth, a transdiagnostic issue affecting children, teens, and emerging adults and addresses the ways in which technology can be harnessed to address these challenges.

Blog post 10.06.2022

Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and Men: What to Know and How it Differs

Body Dysmorphic Disorder is an unhealthy preoccupation with not just the look, shape, or feel of one’s body or a specific part, but the shame one experiences in the appearance of their body, or a certain aspect of it, really hits the mark. BDD is a chronic condition that can be debilitating and can disrupt various aspects of the person’s day-to-day life for years.

Page 02.27.2023

Youth Anxiety Brochure for Pediatric Care Offices

We have partnered with the REACH Institute to launch a new guide for parents and pediatricians about recognizing anxiety in children.

Webinar 03.03.2021

Optimizing Exposure Therapy for Youth with Complex Comorbidities and Presentations

Featuring Emily M. Becker-Haimes, PhD and Hannah E. Frank, PhD. This workshop will describe how clinicians can leverage principles of exposure theory to guide case conceptualization, using a four-step model of exposure therapy practice that can be integrated with other interventions as needed to best suit clients’ individual needs.

Webinar 01.17.2024

Social Connection and Support as Targets for Youth Suicide Prevention

This presentation (sponsored by ADAA's Suicide and Self-Injury Special Interest Group) reviews converging empirical evidence arguing for the importance of belongingness and connectedness to youth suicide risk and prevention.

Event 06.21.2021

Optimizing Exposure Therapy for Youth with Complex Comorbidities and Presentations

Webinar presented by ADAA Member Emily M. Becker-Haimes, PhD and Hannah E. Frank, PhD

Webinar 10.18.2017

Strategies for Delivering AFFIRMative Cognitive Behavior Therapy to LGBTQ+ Youth

While there is growing support in contemporary society for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBQ+) identities, LGBTQ+ youth continue to experience disproportionate risk for myriad mental and behavioral health outcomes. Disparate health risk among LGBTQ+ youth is linked to stre