A study just published in the prestigious Journal of Anxiety Disorders describes a "novel treatment" for clinically anxious kids: letting them do new things, on their own, without their parents. In ...

If your child struggles with anxiety, you may be considering a traditional psychotherapy such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). But there’s a new form of therapy for anxiety that’s centered on ...

About 10 minutes with a therapy dog soothed kids who felt anxious about being emergency room patients. A clinical trial found that after spending time with a dog, young patients reported a ...

More kids, teens and young adults are experiencing anxiety — but fewer are getting the appropriate treatment, according to the latest research. A new study looked at data from the National Ambulatory ...

Pediatric emergency departments could turn to dogs to reduce anxious kids and parents alike, potentially offering an alternative to medications, new data suggest. The randomized clinical trial of 80 ...

I rode the subway with my daughter on her first morning commute to high school last September, from the Upper West Side to Queens — though she begged me not to and then made me promise to not sit next ...

Just like adults, kids can have anxiety or feel anxious. With school, friends and family, and self-esteem, children can run into problems that can lead to anxiety. So how can parents know the ...

If children and teenagers receive any help for an anxiety disorder, it's usually medication — not counseling — according to a study published Wednesday in Pediatrics. In fact, there was an inverse ...

The function of psychotherapy for anxiety is not just to restore calm but to endow people with the ability to regain control over themselves whenever worry threatens to overtake them. The patient ...

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Birth order plays a role in mental health, according to a new study. Being the eldest sibling or being an only child may be linked to anxiety and depression in kids as young as age 8, according to a ...