Our most developmentally important relationships begin in our formative years and come from our teachers, mentors, friends, and our parents or parental figures. How we connect with others is, in some ...

Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is a rare condition of emotional dysfunction in which a baby or child has difficulty forming a bond with parents or caregivers due to early neglect or mistreatment.

Some have described it as living in a war zone. Other parents and relatives have said it’s terrifying and exhausting. Families are always on edge. They wait for outbursts of rage and even extreme ...

Child Development, Vol. 87, No. 1, SPECIAL SECTION: Epigenetics, Child Behavior and Development: Unraveling the Gene-Environment Interaction (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016), pp. 326-340 (15 pages) This study ...

JUPITER, Fla. (CBS12) — In this special report, the CBS12 News I-Team is exploring a controversial mental health diagnosis. We decided to tackle the subject earlier this Spring, shortly after a story ...