Parenting in the hospital is stressful. Moms and dads naturally focus on their ill child, sometimes to the neglect of their own mental health. A Stanford Medicine team has found an effective way to ...

As a child, I had a great deal of anxiety. If you’ve ever seen me speak in public, that might surprise you. But anxiety among children is extremely common and affects almost all children, to varying ...

Anxiety disorders are on the rise in kids, and while the social effects of COVID-19, shutdowns, and other related changes accelerated the rise, rates were already growing rapidly. The prevalence can ...

I have navigated anxiety for as long as I can remember, going back to not being able to raise my hand to talk in preschool. I would get stomach aches or feel my heart racing, but I didn’t know why.

The pressures of youth sports can cause a lot of performance anxiety in kids. Here are some ways to alleviate that stress and help your child enjoy their sport of choice. Kids often start to feel game ...

Performance anxiety presents as unusually strong worry or fear around activities that involve accomplishment. It can be experienced in any number of areas that range from public speaking to athletic ...

Anjali sat at the kitchen table in front of a blank piece of paper. She sat, and sat, and sat. Then she got up from the table and walked away. The unfinished task? A Valentine’s card for her ...

To avoid that, psychologists share that it's best for parents and grandparents to steer clear of these seven "nice" phrases ...

Anxiety is a family inheritance nobody wants to pass down. Yet anxious parents often watch helplessly as their children develop the same fears, worries, and avoidance patterns they’ve struggled with ...