Adults are often reactive when challenges arise. In my work as a therapist, clients learn that reacting is still an action, ...

Noise: Pop psychology frames childhood sensitivity as either a wound to heal or a superpower to celebrate, missing the more ...

Physical aggression by adolescents against their parents is more common than many might believe, according to a longitudinal study from Zurich. Among young people aged 11 to 24, aggressive episodes of ...

Discover practical tips to nurture kindness and respect in your child with simple, everyday choices and teachable moments.

While lead exposure in children has been associated with cognitive and behavioral problems, few studies have examined later psychiatric symptoms. A new analysis led by researchers at Brown ...

Much of the previous literature on the intergenerational effects of ACEs is limited by small sample sizes from a single health system, city, or state. To our knowledge, only one previous study used ...

UCSF review is the largest to distill how stress affects all areas of a child’s health, starting in the womb through ...

In 2020, COVID-19 pandemic restrictions reduced social interactions and altered routines, increasing feelings of social isolation and instability. These restrictions increased adolescents’ ...

Costs to families for behavioral problems grew more than twice as fast as other childhood health care over the past decade Behavioral care made up about 40% of all health expenditures for U.S.

From A.D.H.D. to anxiety, disorders have risen as the expectations of childhood have changed. Credit...Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomas Supported by By Jia Lynn Yang One of the more bewildering ...

Every day in our pediatric clinic, I see the quiet signs of hunger in Sacramento’s children: a 5-year-old whose stomachaches keep her out of kindergarten, and a middle-schooler who can’t focus because ...