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Melissa Deuter M.D.

About

Melissa Deuter, M.D., is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio and is the course director for the resident training seminar on eating disorders. Her work focuses on the care of teens, young adults, and their families, with a special interest in emerging adulthood.

Recent Posts
Is Your Adult Child Having A Mental Health Crisis?
Many young adults with stress induced mental health symptoms can benefit from learning simple coping skills, like time management or self-soothing. The presence of mental health symptoms does not have to mean disability.
Young Adults in Recovery, Maybe You Can't Go Home Again
The return home after addiction treatment is an especially vulnerable time at any age, perhaps more so for teens and young adults who are driven to pursue social relationships and may not have formed solid self-identities or goals for the future.
Twenty-Somethings Moving Back Home

Maybe she graduated from college and hasn’t had time to find a real job yet. Or perhaps he washed out of military training. Or, maybe college or the first job experience was a flop. For a variety reasons, record numbers of twenty-somethings are moving back home to live with their parents.

Maybe she graduated from college and hasn’t had time to find a real job yet. Or perhaps he washed out of military training. Or, maybe college or the first job experience was a flop. For a variety reasons, record numbers of twenty-somethings are moving back home to live with their parents.

Should Everyone Go To College?

College is increasingly expensive and stressful as students try to compete with greater numbers of their peers to get into reputable schools, they face mental health problems at alarming rates, graduates face crushing debt, and the job market for college grads is bleak. Why should any of us want to endure college?

College is increasingly expensive and stressful as students try to compete with greater numbers of their peers to get into reputable schools, they face mental health problems at alarming rates, graduates face crushing debt, and the job market for college grads is bleak. Why should any of us want to endure college?

Parent Tips for Crisis in the College Years

Have a plan for how you’ll intervene if your child stops functioning/growing/benefitting from your arrangement to help her get an education.

Have a plan for how you’ll intervene if your child stops functioning/growing/benefitting from your arrangement to help her get an education.

5 Shortcomings of Young Adult Psychiatric Care

When a young adult receives a new mental illness diagnosis, she may absorb the illness into her sense of self, see it as who she is. But not all young adults with an episode of depression will go on to experience another one.

When a young adult receives a new mental illness diagnosis, she may absorb the illness into her sense of self, see it as who she is. But not all young adults with an episode of depression will go on to experience another one.

The Most Important Talk to Have Before College

During the college years, many of your discussions and most of your arguments with your child will circle back to the issue of money.

During the college years, many of your discussions and most of your arguments with your child will circle back to the issue of money.

Moving Out Leads to Anxiety for Introverts

Being introverted is not the same thing as having anxiety, but anxiety can result when introverts lose their vital opportunities for emotional quiet.

Being introverted is not the same thing as having anxiety, but anxiety can result when introverts lose their vital opportunities for emotional quiet.