Disruptive behaviour disorders (DBDs) encompass a spectrum of persistent patterns of antisocial, defiant or aggressive conduct emerging in childhood and adolescence. The two principal diagnoses, ...

Youth with related behavior challenges may have trouble moving between different brain states, according to a new study from Yale Child Study Center. Their brains appear to get stuck in states with ...

In preschool and school-aged children with disruptive behavior disorders, programs involving parents — either alone or with the child and a caregiver or teacher — were associated with reductions in ...

Roughly every month I receive an e-mail from a parent somewhere in the world asking for help with a child who is violent, angry or aggressive. Some people describe being physically beaten or having ...

Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide are living with a mental disorder, nearly double the number recorded in 1990. According to a new study, this stark rise has placed mental disorders as the leading ...