"Kids will do well when they can." That simple sentence holds the key to an innovative approach to handling challenging behavior. It's the premise of , which argues that children and adolescents will ...

This post was written with Jessica Minahan and originally appeared in the Harvard Education Letter. About 10 percent of the school population, or 9–13 million children, struggle with mental health ...

No child’s perfect, right? So what’s a parent to do when they’re at their wit’s end – whether because of toddler tantrums or teen defiance? The first step in tackling challenging behavior is ...

Children with autism tend to engage in challenging behavior more than other children, which impacts their ability to engage appropriately with instructional tasks. Existing literature has established ...

As a child psychologist who specializes in helping kids with challenging behavior, I hear how often we parents take the blame for our kids’ behavior, whether the behavior happens at home, at school or ...

After appropriately identifying the behavior in a child with autism, a suitable intervention can be used to proactively, or reactively, reduce and replace it. Challenging behaviors can be difficult to ...

This review and meta-analysis followed methodological and reporting guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), [25] Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of ...

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- A viral post on Twitter by a University of Maryland student has elicited a response from the university after she shared what some might call misogynistic language in a teaching ...

Leading paediatricians are calling for an end to smacking – for any reason – warning it poses a risk of serious physical harm to children. Currently, under the Children Act 2004, hitting a child is ...