A new study of treatments for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has found that combining behavior modification therapy with medication is the most effective way to improve ...

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Behavioral activation is an approach to mental health that involves someone using behaviors to influence their emotional state. It is often a part of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), but it can ...

Managing children’s behavior has become increasingly complex. Parents today are balancing academic pressure, packed schedules, digital distractions, and growing concerns about children’s emotional ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A family-based cognitive behavioral therapy markedly improves symptoms in children as young as five years old with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to a new ...

The urge to smoke is contagious, but quitting apparently is, too. A team of researchers who showed obesity can spread person-to-person has found a similar pattern with smoking cessation: A smoker is ...

Resolutions promise a new you tomorrow; reinvention designs one. Here’s what the science says about why fresh starts often beat fleeting pledges. There’s something ritualistic about the first day of ...

For anyone who might be hurt by reading about abuse, the story I want to tell here does not get into any details but certainly can evoke the circumstances around such events for some. It’s not about ...

BECKLEY, W.Va. — A program in Raleigh County Schools that deals directly with student behavior and discipline is inspiring new legislation at the state Capitol. Allen Sexton, director of special ...