video: A home-based parenting programme to prevent childhood behaviour problems, which very unusually focuses on children when they are still toddlers and, in some cases, just 12 months old, has ...

A pregnant woman's exposure to tobacco smoke and pollution from road traffic can influence the development of behavioural outcomes in early childhood. This is the conclusion of a recent study led by a ...

Do abuse and neglect cause behavior problems among children or do behavior problems among children cause abuse and neglect? A new study from researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human ...

Previous research indicates that extensive time in early center-based day care is correlated with high levels of behavior problems in young children. However, the validity of this work has been ...

Social workers need to be aware that the cause of challenging behaviour in children could be prenatal alcohol intake. Knowing this, support can be planned. Julie Griffiths reports "I placed a child ...

Parents should not feel pressured to make their young children undertake structured learning or achieve specific tasks, particularly during lockdown. A new study of children under the age of two has ...

Letitia Campbell received funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Centre for Excellence in Ear and Hearing Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and the ...

Varun Warrier receives funding from the Wellcome Trust, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, and the Autism Research Trust. Charlotte Cecil receives funding from ...

One of the earliest signs that parents tend to miss is when children feel their opinions are constantly disregarded. Children feel as if their ideas don’t count, and this builds frustration in them.

Instead, we saw a clear and striking change in child behaviour." Beth Barker, a research assistant at the PEDAL Centre, said: "The fact that this programme was effective with children aged just one or ...