The reader asked: "With all the mental and emotional health issues that can afflict our youth, how do parents identify if their kids are in psychological trouble?" In partial answer to such a large ...

Is social media addicting? Does it lead to poor adolescent mental health? Meta, TikTok, Snap, Youtube face a series of ...

Guest post written by Michelle Ramos, PhD. Adolescent behavior problems are often classified as either internalizing or externalizing behaviors. Internalizing behaviors include things like anxiety, ...

The quality of the neighborhood where a child grows up has a significant impact on the number of problem behaviors they display during elementary and teenage years, a study led by Johns Hopkins ...

Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s online chat about educating adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders. My name is Christina Samuels, and I cover special education for Education Week.

The study of risk has generally been partitioned into separate research categories—divided both by subject (particular types of behaviors) and by academic discipline—committee chair Laurence Steinberg ...

When teens viewed their parents' parenting tactics more negatively than parents did, they showed elevated levels of aggressive behaviors, concludes a new study.. Yelling. Screaming. Slamming of doors.

A large-scale program that enlisted students in disadvantaged middle schools to teach younger peers reduced disciplinary problems and improved academic achievement, reports new research led by a ...

Yelling. Screaming. Slamming of doors. Sneaking out. Sound familiar? Perhaps you’re a parent with a teenager at home who partakes in “problem behaviors.” Researchers at the University of California, ...

Ten percent of young adolescent boys—or one in 10—exhibit a symptom of conduct disorder, as well as a symptom of risky or problem gambling, according to new research findings from UB’s Research ...