• Parents of children with developmental delay and behavioral problems face many obstacles to care, including financial challenges, shortages of mental health clinicians, fear of stigma, ...

A new study published in the journal Development and Psychopathology provides evidence that different types of adversity in ...

Any parent will tell you that raising a child isn't easy. While the experience can be filled with joy and love and ...

The brains of children with conduct problems don't react in a normal way when they see images of other people in pain, a new study finds. Conduct problems include antisocial behaviors such as cruelty ...

Disapproving of your children's friends in an effort to curb their bad behavior can have an adverse effect, according to research. The newly released study, published in The Journal of Child ...

Use of telehealth-delivered, live coaching of caregiver-child interactions led to improved management of behavioral challenges and increased compliance with caregiver direction. In a study recently ...

At least 1 in 20 families struggles with an aggressive child. Such children and their families need and should be offered evidence-based treatments. When these families get ineffective therapies—or no ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who were born extremely preterm -- after only 25 weeks of pregnancy or early -- are more likely to have emotional and behavior problems than their peers who were ...

A new report on child brain research has associated prenatal marijuana exposure with subsequent attention, behavioral and social problems in adolescent children; the risk rises significantly five or ...