Child Behavioral Disorders
This category includes child management problems and the diagnoses of oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder. Children with these disorders manifest a pattern of negative, hostile, defiant behavior, and occasionally aggressive behavior.

For More Information

• Center for Disabilities and Development provides behavioral assessment and treatment for serious behavior problems associated with mental retardation, brain injury, or other neurodevelopmental disorders. The Center’s Biobehavioral Service uses applied behavior analysis to determine the function of problem behaviors and to design treatment plans to reduce self-injury, noncompliance, and aggression. Strategies for increasing communication skills, task completion, and social interaction are also core components of treatment. Services are provided through outpatient evaluations, intensive treatment programs, and community consultation/outreach. Call 319-353-6900 or 877- 686-0031.
  
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers evaluation, consultation, and treatment for patients with behavioral disorders. During the initial evaluation or consultation, individual recommendations for treatment are discussed. This treatment may be provided in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic or in our downtown location at Plaza Centre One. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Services include medication management, educational consultation/testing, psychological testing, individual therapy, and family counseling. Call 319-356-1188 or 877-384-8999.
  
• Pediatric Psychology. This clinic evaluates and treats children with behavior problems where there is also a need to examine parent-child interaction problems. This clinic is unique in providing functional behavioral analysis that results in a treatment designed for parent and child management problems. In this clinic, children also receive medical, speech, nursing and social service evaluation. Call 888-573-5437 or 319-356-2434.