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 ...

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is a structured, evidence-based intervention designed to reduce disruptive and oppositional behaviours in young children by enhancing the quality of the ...

A home-based parenting program to prevent childhood behavior problems, which very unusually focuses on children when they are still toddlers and, in some cases, just 12 months old, has proven highly ...

Parent training interventions encompass structured programmes designed to equip caregivers with skills and strategies for managing children’s externalising behaviour problems, such as aggression, ...

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 ...

A study of the first universal parenting programme, designed to prevent early child behaviour problems, shows that it has little impact on toddler behaviour. The study, conducted at the Centre for ...

When a child displays violent or aggressive behaviour, such as hitting, biting, anger, or sudden defiance, the first reactions are often blame and discipline. Parents may worry about poor parenting, ...

Children who are exposed to abuse before they are eleven years old, and those exposed to abuse both in childhood and adolescence may be more likely to develop conduct problems (such as bullying or ...

Our study is the first to show that childhood maltreatment, at least in part, causes poorer mental health. Master1305/ Shutterstock Our research team wanted to know if childhood maltreatment directly ...

A child throwing a toy, talking back, refusing to share, or melting down in the middle of a calm evening can look like simple misbehavior. But very often, what appears “bad” on the surface is only the ...

Parents want the best for their children but some common patterns of parenting or family life increase stress and harm the wellbeing of kids. Many of these stressors are unintentional but the good ...