The percentage of children under 18 years old with anxiety and depression increased steadily from 2016 to 2022, according to publicly available data from the National Survey of Children's Health that ...

Birth order plays a role in mental health, according to a new study. Being the eldest sibling or being an only child may be linked to anxiety and depression in kids as young as age 8, according to a ...

Children experience many emotions—happiness, excitement, frustration, sadness, and fear—just like adults. But when these emotions become persistent and start interfering with their daily lives, it may ...

As summer ends and school begins across the state over the next few weeks, children face a whirlwind of emotions. This time brings both excitement and uncertainty, with opportunities for learning and ...

Increasing rates of mental health conditions: The study found that the rate of children with mental health conditions has continued to increase before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new study from Kennedy Krieger Institute is calling attention to an emerging mental health crisis among children with long COVID. Researchers found that nearly 40% of pediatric patients with long ...

Anxiety and stress among schoolchildren skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, feeding chronic absenteeism, and the dawn of a new school year is leaving kids and parents alike to grapple with yet ...

The beginning of a new school year is often defined by anticipation. For some students, the newness brings excitement. For others, the unknown sparks anxiety. However the kids in your life respond to ...

Giftedness, or any sort of talent or inordinately high degree of expertise, is positively correlated with perfectionism—the higher the talent, the more pressure to perfect it. Therefore, gifted ...

The popular food critic began posting restaurant reviews in 2021 and has almost 17 million followers on the app Brendan Le is a Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE with four years of experience working as an ...