While social media can be a valuable tool early and unsupervised exposure can harm children’s mental health in profound ways ...

Perfectionism, which is motivated by fear and self-doubt, is often rooted in adverse childhood experiences.

Childhood trauma encompasses a range of experiences that have the potential to negatively impact a child’s development and ...

A recent longitudinal study, the first of its kind, finds that parental narcissism predicts childhood mental illness.

“Harsh parenting in late childhood more specifically affected the corticolimbic circuit—a specific part of the brain that ...

Making derogatory comments about a child's appearance can lead to body image issues, low self-esteem, and a distorted ...

Living with a disabled child can have profound effects on the entire family ... It may be associated with guilt, blame, or reduced self-esteem. It may divert attention from other aspects of ...

Appetite self-regulation is related ... influences include parent-child interactions around food, as well as non-food-related caregiver practices that can impact the child's emotional regulation.

Guest columnist DeLores Pressley, founder of She Elevates, writes about how to help children overcome peer and social media ...