Parents aren’t heeding the warnings, despite 49% being concerned about their children’s mental health, according to a new ...

Over 11,000 children aged 10–13 were screened with a five-item version of the Screen for Child Anxiety-Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) questionnaire, and children who screened positive in ...

According to a study courtesy of the University of South Florida, owning a phone can actually yield positive outcomes. It’s ...

A study from the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku in Finland screened school-age children for anxiety and evaluated the effectiveness of the Master Your Worries program.

Adjunctive use of therapy dogs in standard child-life therapy is tied to a modest but significantly greater reduction in both ...

Children lost an estimated 11.5 million days of learning last autumn term as school absence rates remain higher than ...

More specifically, 46% of children in the therapy dog group showed a decrease in anxiety scores compared to 23% in the control group. A decrease was defined as a 2.5-point drop in reported anxiety ...

Here's the bottom line: happy children are more productive children. Anxiety leads to more anxiety, worry, sadness, and ...

The findings were significant, with younger kids under 11 with social anxiety noticeably struggling to refocus after making the mistakes. But older kids, 11 and above, did not have this problem.

For many people – including children on the autism spectrum, anxiety disorders, developmental disabilities – noisy places and certain lighting can prompt sensory overload. BRIDGES, which ...