CAMHS provides specialist child and adolescent mental health services for children and adolescents (up to 18 years) with serious emotional disturbance (including young people with
a diagnosable psychiatric disorder that is detrimental to their growth or development and / or where there are substantial difficulties in the person's social or family environment).
The college years are very stressful for many people, so it comes as little surprise that college - aged youth often suffer from
diagnosable psychiatric disorders.
More than one in four Americans suffer from
a diagnosable psychiatric disorder at any given time, according to estimates from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).