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 ...

In Western cultures, adolescence is often viewed as a time of rebellion and irresponsibility. A new article published in the journal Child Development Perspectives synthesized recent research on ...

India faces a growing, largely neglected crisis in child and adolescent mental health, rooted in early vulnerability and worsened by an unregulated digital environment ...

Some people believe that parenting doesn’t have that much influence on the child and adolescent’s development. After all, nature can predominate over nurture, and there are so many other factors ...

The brain develops in spurts throughout childhood and adolescence, but not much is understood about the process. To disentangle this complicated puzzle surrounding one of the body’s most mysterious ...

Before COVID, American teenagers’ psychological health was already in decline. The pandemic, with its sudden lockdowns, school closures and other jolts to normal life, made that downward slope steeper ...

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 ...

By Zuzana Schwidrowski and Omolola Mary LipedeADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Feb 19 2026 (IPS) - Africa is home to approximately 160 million adolescent girls aged 10 to 19 (according to 2022 data by the ...

Children have been experimenting with substance use earlier than expected, with the average age being 12.9 years ...