Behavioral Health

These days, limiting time spent on smartphones is a challenge for adults and teenagers alike.

A recent training for a group in Pa. addressed the softer skills around how to assess and prevent threats.

Some middle and high schools in the area are starting their school days later, which experts say will result in healthier, less troublemaking students.

Local attorneys hope the landmark Oklahoma decision against the powerhouse drug manufacturer will set a precedent for similar cases in Pennsylvania.

Participants at a Trenton workshop said funders and others looking to measure progress may not see it in the strategy of aiding drug users where they are.

Lawyers for the nonprofit proposing a supervised injection site compared it to ERs, syringe exchanges. U.S. attorneys said the difference is they’re legal.

Playing doesn't end with childhood. It's important for adults too, just in a different way.

WellSpan says it's helping families find new service providers, but with a shortage of certified therapists in the region, some families say no one is available fill the gap.

These families have access to care, but getting appointments can be harder than it is for civilians, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia research says.

The likelihood of accidental OD is severely overhyped.

Delaware Gov. Carney has signed legislation requiring police to notify schools if a student has experienced or witnessed a traumatic event.

Nostalgia means everything old can be new again. In the brain, memory meets emotion to make us feel good (mostly) — and sometimes like spending money.

Kim Stringer has struggled with mental illness for a decade, but her parents can't get her committed. Why a recent change in state law meant to help doesn't go far enough.

For the first time, a federal court in Ohio is releasing a trove of data that offers far more detail about the size and scope of the nation's opioid epidemic

Derricia Smith, 17, reflects on her experience with an elegant safeguard of the mind when it faces trauma, in this essay for Philly Audio Diaries.