Adolescent Child Specialty Services (ACSS)
offers specialized psychological assessment and treatment services for youth. Whether your preschooler is exhibiting
severe tantrums, your first grader is struggling to read, or your teenager is experiencing depression, ACSS can provide the
knowledge, support and direction you need to help your child overcome their difficulties.
In working with children and adolescents,
it is important to consider all aspects of their world in the assessment and treatment process. Therefore,
each initial appointment begins with a thorough interview of your child's medical, developmental, behavioral, emotional,
and academic history. When possible, extended family members and school personnel are encouraged to participate in therapeutic
recommendations, to facilitate a more rapid improvement in the child's daily functioning.
ACSS recognizes
that parents take assessment outcomes and treatment recommendations very seriously, and that it can often be difficult to
know "the right thing" to do for your child. Special care is made to complete comprehensive evaluations in
order to bolster parents confidence in the diagnosis made, and in their subsequent choice of treatment strategies. The
diagnostic process is taken very seriously at ACSS, and testing services are available if ADHD, Learning Disabilities, or
other processing difficulties are suspected.
ACSS focuses on meeting the needs of children and
adolescents. Because there are relatively few child psychologists available in this area, treatment services
are largely limited to individuals under the age of 18 (though exceptions are sometimes made in the context of meeting
family needs, and under specific other circumstances).
