Detecting a child’s mental disorder can be difficult because many of the behaviors can also occur as part of normal development. As a result, some parents are hesitant to seek help. To help you ...

More than other healthcare expenses, costs of pediatric behavioral healthcare nearly doubled over 10 years and have caused ...

Kids who need behavioral health care increase a family’s risk of financial hardship, researchers said.

Behavioral health care has surged to represent 40% of all medical expenditures for U.S. children in 2022, nearly doubling ...

With kids going back to school, many parents are concerned about how their child will do managing their behavior for eight hours a day. School can be overwhelming for kids who may already struggle ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a smartwatch-based alert system that signals parents at the earliest signs of a ...

SPRINGFIELD – Citing what he called a nationwide crisis in children’s mental health, Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday unveiled a sweeping plan to overhaul and expand the availability of children’s ...

A child without space to express pain learns to speak through actions, not words. This story shows how emotional silence in childhood can shape the roots of later aggression.

On Feb. 6, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services introduced the Child Behavioral Health dashboard — a publicly available tool designed to provide data and analysis on behavioral health ...

Navigating any kind of adult family relationship can be difficult, whether you're learning how to look past hurtful childhood experiences as an adult child or figuring out how to navigate parenting a ...