In preschool and school-aged children with disruptive behavior disorders, programs involving parents — either alone or with the child and a caregiver or teacher — were associated with reductions in ...

Youth with related behavior challenges may have trouble moving between different brain states, according to a new study from Yale Child Study Center. Their brains appear to get stuck in states with ...

Researchers at the University of Agder (UiA) have already identified clear links between what children eat and their mental health as early as the age of four. Children who eat plenty of fruit and ...

Children exposed to their mother's cannabis use during pregnancy and after birth are three times more likely to develop behavioral problems, new Curtin University research has found. Published in ...

Disruptive behaviour disorders (DBDs) encompass a spectrum of persistent patterns of antisocial, defiant or aggressive conduct emerging in childhood and adolescence. The two principal diagnoses, ...

Challenges with impulsivity and emotional regulation may present as aggression in children with ADHD. These behaviors can be challenging, but a mental health professional can help create an effective ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State legislators and educators are continuing to put their heads together to look at how to better address concerning behaviors in schools across West Virginia. The Legislative ...

When chronic irritability and explosive outbursts become a child's daily reality, it may be more than a phase. Learn the ...

Roughly every month I receive an e-mail from a parent somewhere in the world asking for help with a child who is violent, angry or aggressive. Some people describe being physically beaten or having ...

More than a billion people play multiplayer video games online every day, but research is lacking on their in-game behavior. The video game-playing community is full of players with a variety of ...