NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If some children seem like they were born to be bad, new research suggests it may be true. Sign up here. In a study of adult twins and their children, researchers found ...

Youth with related behavior challenges may have trouble moving between different brain states, according to a new study from ...

• 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, ...

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 ...

Do abuse and neglect cause behavior problems among children or do behavior problems among children cause abuse and neglect? A new study from researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human ...

Harsh parenting practices, not genetics, are linked to higher levels of behavior problems in children, according to a new study. Harsh parenting practices, not genetics, are linked to higher levels of ...

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 couple of news stories about some new “studies” on sleep and both ADHD and child behavior recently caught my eye. They illustrate the impressive lengths certain segments of the mental health ...

Many parents have been there—red-faced as your child makes you want to scream at the top of your lungs. New research suggests at different approach works better. When parents respond to a child's ...

My second-grade teacher called my mother in for a conference because I wouldn’t stop drawing on my homework. Not instead of doing it. On top of it, around it, in the margins, turning the negative ...