Credit: Getty Images Children are presenting with complex, sometimes co-occurring, psychiatric disorders. Pediatric primary care providers play a vital role in educating and treating these patients ...

Children who go to emergency departments in a mental health crisis and need to be hospitalized often end up stuck there for days, a new study finds. That happens in roughly one in ten of all mental ...

Dr. Marc Lashley received almost no training in medical school in how to deal with children’s mental health issues. But when he started practicing as a pediatrician, he found there was a critical — ...

After more than a decade of planning, Santa Clara County is preparing to open this spring a facility that health advocates believe is long overdue: a psychiatric center with beds for local youth.

You’d think child psychiatrists would want to help troubled children, and you’d be right. But the medical association that represents these doctors is suppressing open discussion of the best care for ...

Central Oregon families whose children are experiencing a psychiatric crisis will soon have an in-patient treatment option in the region, rather than receiving treatment across the mountains. State ...