Family therapy has emerged as a crucial intervention in treating behavioral health problems. This therapeutic approach views the family as a system where each member’s behavior affects the others. If ...

A friend of mine who is a primary care physician recently lamented that when he referred a patient for treatment for depression, they usually were put on a four-month waitlist. He really wanted to be ...

Costs to families for behavioral problems grew more than twice as fast as other childhood health care over the past decade Behavioral care made up about 40% of all health expenditures for U.S.

When a parent suffered trauma as a child, their kids are affected. Trauma in childhood echoes through generations, according to new research that could have implications for thousands of migrant ...

LAUREL, Md. — An independent oversight report has documented systematic failures in behavioral health services at the District's New Beginnings Youth Development Center, adding to mounting concerns ...

PROVIDENCE – In decades past, Rhode Island was a leader in children’s behavioral health care. The state had developed intensive care programs for children that effectively decreased hospitalizations.

Grand Forks, N.D.-based Altru Health System is working to prevent behavioral health crises before they happen and opened a new health center to keep care in the community, the Grand Forks Herald ...

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HealthDay News — Prenatal methamphetamine exposure is linked to emotional and anxiety problems in 3-year-old children and an increased risk of attention-deficit ...

SB-113 transfers regulatory authority over licensed behavior analysts to the Alabama Department of Mental Health and converts the former independent licensing board into an advisory body. The law ...

Jan. 15—GRAND FORKS — As Altru Health System's new hospital stands tall, a smaller facility nearby also prepares to accept its own patients. The new behavioral health center, sitting to the new ...