More than other healthcare expenses, costs of pediatric behavioral healthcare nearly doubled over 10 years and have caused ...

How everyday color additives in packaged foods may shape children’s behavior, biology, and long-term health and why science ...

Access to mental health and addiction treatment has improved for kids and teens nationally, but care is costly ...

This study shows that even small, well-timed interventions can change the trajectory of a child’s emotional dysregulation ...

Behavioral health care has surged to represent 40% of all medical expenditures for U.S. children in 2022, nearly doubling ...

New research shows a jump in pediatric medical spending on behavioral health from 2011 to 2022, highlighting the urgent need ...

Detecting a child’s mental disorder can be difficult because many of the behaviors can also occur as part of normal development. As a result, some parents are hesitant to seek help. To help you ...

Many children exhibit behaviors driven by a need for attention, but identifying these patterns isn't always easy. We spoke to therapists about how to tell if your kid needs more one-on-one time with ...

Kids who need behavioral health care increase a family’s risk of financial hardship, researchers said.

With kids going back to school, many parents are concerned about how their child will do managing their behavior for eight hours a day. School can be overwhelming for kids who may already struggle ...

SPRINGFIELD – Citing what he called a nationwide crisis in children’s mental health, Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday unveiled a sweeping plan to overhaul and expand the availability of children’s ...