Mental Health

Young people traumatized by Hurricane Maria were more likely to report substance use.

When it comes to mental health at school, typically the focus is on helping students, especially as they emerge from the pandemic with heightened levels of anxiety, stress and emotional…

Better understanding what young people need to succeed is essential to nurturing their development in adolescence, young adulthood, and beyond.

Psychiatrist Laura Erickson-Schroth discusses addictive algorithms and other negative forces eroding kids’ mental health.

Wildfire smoke can create economic anxiety, isolation, and despair. In rural areas, scientists see a link between smoke and suicide rates.

A new study shows artificial intelligence can accurately identify factors particularly related to teen suicide attempts.

Johnson & Pratt: Challenges from poverty and mental health to lack of internet and gifted programs are disrupting kids’ educations & economic futures.

The mental healthcare system in the United States needs a dramatic intervention. At best, our system is fragmented, siloed, and plagued by misaligned incentives that only deepen existing problems; at…

Declaring that children’s “lives and education have been turned upside-down,” President Joe Biden used his first State of the Union address Tuesday night to highlight the pandemic’s blow to student mental health…

Lingering wildfire smoke from Oregon’s Archie Creek fire (Photo by Jan Pytalski, The Daily Yonder) Wildfire smoke travels wherever the win…

“It’s the feeling of loneliness, of needing people and purpose and not getting it which appears to be bad for health.”…

Positive psychology focuses on science-based ideas about how to increase your happiness and live a satisfying life. Studies are following how school-based interventions affect students.