All kids have fears, whether they're scared of a dark bedroom, a new school year, or the neighbor's dog. Most will simply complain about these worries and move on. But about 7 percent of children aged ...

Your child is not stuck in fear; they are stuck in thought. When reassurance backfires, anxiety tightens its grip. Here's ...

For children with severe social anxiety or selective mutism (a condition in which children selectively speak in only certain settings), accommodation may manifest as the parent ordering for the child ...

Now, let’s spend some time thinking about your own child’s worries and fears. To help get you started, we created a checklist that includes common fears within different categories. Here are example ...

Using biofeedback and gamification, the solution teaches emotional self-regulation strategies to child patients with disorders such as ADHD and ASD.

Separation anxiety in children, often triggered by life changes, is a common fear, not misbehavior. Parents, too, find ...

Children of anxious parents are not more sensitive In their experiment, the researchers also looked at whether children of parents who themselves suffered from social anxiety were more sensitive to ...

A new study from the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku in Finland screened school-age children for anxiety and examined the efficacy of the Master Your Worries programme ...

As a child, Trudi Sullivan would become very anxious by changes in her routine. No matter how hard she tried, she could not calm herself when that happened. Many years later, she was diagnosed with ...

Social anxiety is commonly associated with shyness, silence, and a tendency to withdraw from social interactions. However, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children who interacted with therapy dogs reported greater decreases in stress levels during ED visits. Fewer ...