How common is childhood mental illness? If you asked 20 mental health clinicians, you could easily get 20 different answers. This lack of consensus does not mean clinicians aren’t being well trained, ...

Many people do not believe in the legitimacy of the labels currently provided by mental health professionals who claim that they are “diagnosing and treating mental disorders.” Much has been written ...

Psychologists typically do not diagnose children with personality disorders. This is because their personality is still developing and can change quickly as they grow. However, a child may show early ...

Credit: Getty Images Children are presenting with complex, sometimes co-occurring, psychiatric disorders. Pediatric primary care providers play a vital role in educating and treating these patients ...

A new Yale study shows how the timing of depression in mothers and fathers affects mental health in their adult children.

Learn more about mental health, mental disorders, treatments, prevention, and public health research on children’s mental health. Being mentally healthy during childhood means reaching developmental ...

Prospective parents often worry about issues like affording child care and other expenses, maintaining a career, and ...

A long-running UK cohort study found that exposure to parental depression from pregnancy through young adulthood was linked ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Pediatricians suspected a connection between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and an increased risk for mental health challenges, and now a study in the British Medical ...

(Reuters Health) - Preeclampsia is associated with increased risk of any childhood mental disorder in offspring, as well as child psychological, behavioral, and emotional disorders, a study in Finland ...

The consequences of an underfunded and overstretched child mental health system can be devastating for Connecticut’s kids and families. The combination of children with serious psychiatric illness ...