Growing up can be hard to do and guiding a growing child through their growth is equally hard. As children go through their life, they will face emotional challenges.

This presentation will give you skills in order to help you handle those emotional challenges. Hopefully, the presentation will help you with some of your own emotional challenges.

About The Presenter

Dr. Chad Lennon, MD is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Sheppard Pratt’s Baltimore/Washington Campus. He is board certified in neurology and child and adolescent psychiatry. Dr. Lennon received his bachelor’s degree from Franklin & Marshall College, attended a post-baccalaureate program at CUNY City College, and earned his medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine. He completed the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Residency Program where he was a psychiatry chief resident, followed by a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship program at Mt. Sinai Elmhurst Hospital. He previously worked as the lead psychiatrist on the adolescent unit at Adventist Behavioral Healthcare-Shady Grove Medical Center.

Dr. Lennon has won a number of academic excellence awards including the Adventist Healthcare Shady Grove Medical Center Physician RISES Individual Award and the Franklin & Marshall College Sydney N. Bridgett ’51 Award. He is a member of a number of professional societies including Black Psychiatrists of America, American Psychiatric Association, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, and Maryland Psychiatric Society.

His research interests include postpartum depression in African Americans; the stigma of mental illness in the African American community; managing stress, trauma, and anxiety in children and adolescents; bias in medical ethics; suicide; mood disorders; severe mental illness; and more.

Dr. Lennon has also participated in medical mission work. He is widely published, has authored numerous blogs, and participated in many speaking engagements. His presentations have included topics such as suicide, anxiety, and a medical student and resident lecture series. His blogs have included topics such as the stigma of mental illness in the African American community, and managing stress, trauma, and anxiety in children and adolescents.