The global burden of child and youth deaths remains high, despite dramatic reductions in under-5s deaths, and there are stark inequalities across the globe in the availability of health services to ...

This could mean mapping out a project timeline with your teen, helping them break down big assignments into manageable steps, or encouraging them to get started when they feel overwhelmed. As skills ...

Digital media use is consistently associated with risks to child and adolescent mental health and development globally, according to a review published online March 9 in JAMA Pediatrics. Samantha ...

Among today's most pressing development challenges is the matching of financing to health needs. One of the critically underfunded global priorities is adolescent health, with adolescents (aged 10–24 ...

Until recently, the prevailing belief was that brain development ceased at around the time a child entered kindergarten (i.e., that the brain is 90-95% formed by age six). However, recent findings ...

The committee believes child and adolescent health is important in and of itself—as a measure of a society’s values and capabilities—and as a direct determinant of subsequent productivity and later ...

Source: Carl Pickhardt Ph. D. A high school student in Australia wrote with five good project questions about growing up as an only child, seeking answers which might help parents appreciate some ...

Netflix’s Adolescence has ignited global debate. The series traces the disturbing journey of 13-year-old Jamie Miller, whose exposure to misogynistic online communities may have contributed to him to ...

A new study shows that that early deprivation continues to affect brain development well into adolescence. After the fall of communism in Romania, thousands of children were discovered in ...

Largest group of Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists in the state Provides the largest range of child and adolescent psychiatry services in Alabama Liaison relationships with regional ...