• 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, ...

Parenting plays a crucial role in shaping a child’s behavior, especially when dealing with challenges. Here’s a guide to ...

A team, led by researchers at Penn State, received a $3.6 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study brain patterns in children with ADHD and serious behavior problems in ...

The pervasive spread of misinformation can be tracked to cognitive limitations, social influence and the global spread of ...

AI chatbot ChatGPT-4 attempted a “doubling the square” problem, a 2,400-year-old mathematical challenge from Plato. The ...

From Other Nonprofit Media showcases select work from other nonprofit news sites around the nation. The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up ...

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 2 (April 2011), pp. 186-213 (28 pages) This study examined the longitudinal relations between competence (academic achievement and social preference) and problem ...

Children who have been spanked by their parents by age 5 show an increase in behavior problems at age 6 and age 8 relative to children who have never been spanked, according to new findings. The study ...

A long-term study tracking 475 children found that autistic children are far more likely to experience persistent gastrointestinal issues than their peers.

A very interesting study by Ian Dinwoodie, who works at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, and his colleagues called "Demographics and Comorbidity of Behavior Problems in Dogs, ...