Emotional Health
Emotional health is an extremely important part of growing up healthy. For most kids, staying emotionally healthy is harder than staying physically healthy. We know that everyone goes through difficulties at one time or another, whether it is a personal issue, or something involving a family member.
At Falmouth Pediatrics, we care deeply about your child or adolescent’s emotional health. We will discuss emotional health at well visits to help promote good health from an early age onward. We are also available to discuss problems as they arise. If necessary, we can schedule an emotional health consultation, to make a plan. There are times when you may need referrals to emotional health providers. Whatever the situation, we want to help. Talking about problems is the first part of getting to a better place.
Most insurers do not require referrals from us for outpatient emotional health visits. However, some emotional health providers may not accept your insurance. To find a local provider who accepts your insurance, we recommend that you go on to your health insurance company’s website , then follow the correct link to find providers. Insurers will usually list this under the “Behavioral Health” heading.
If someone in your family has mental illness, getting good, timely and affordable help can be extremely challenging and frustrating. Don’t give up! This link is a good place to start for navigating the system:
Here is a list of emotional health websites that you might also find helpful:
- Child Abuse Prevention
- Parent Help Line
- All Babies Cry Fact Sheet
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Anxiety and Depression Association of America
- Autism Society
- Autism Speaks
- Bullying Prevention
- Depression and Bipolar
- Eating Disorders
- Massachusetts Al-anon and Ala-teen
- Narcotics Anonymous
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- National Domestic Violence Hotline
- New England Region of Narcotics Anonymous
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- “Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays”
- Postpartum Depression
- Sexual Assault Support
- Schizophrenia
- Social Media Hotline
- Suicide Prevention Hotline
