Dozens of juvenile detention centers in 25 states reported holding children weeks or months as they awaited space at long-term psychiatric treatment facilities, according to a new survey.

15.9% of American households with children have a kid who needs mental health treatment. Here’s a look at where those rates are highest. Mental health treatment is critical for many Americans. It’s ...

Globally, 1 in 7 adolescents aged 10–19 experiences a mental disorder - yet major gaps remain in how mental health care is organised, implemented, and ...

Emergency department visits and revisits in children's hospitals that are related to mental health are "increasing rapidly," a new study suggests. Between 2015 and 2020, mental health visits in ...

A young woman who opened up to her mother about anxiety and depression expected comfort. Instead, her mom compared those ...

Pediatric emergency departments (EDs) are conducting laboratory tests of children who present with mental health issues, despite evidence that the tests are not necessary and rarely result in ...

Children are going through a mental health crisis ― the “health crisis of this generation,” Dayton Children’s has said, leading the health system to invest tens of millions into behavioral health ...

Tanya Anderson has spent more than two decades with Youth Villages, a nonprofit that provides services to young people and ...

Let’s say that I am a school-age child and can’t quite grasp a certain concept—say, multiplication—and to hide my embarrassment and so as to distract everyone from noticing my inability to multiply ...

Maine's proposed changes to Section 28 Maine Care home-and-community-based services could strip crucial supports for kids ...