Behavioral Health

An annual survey of college freshmen suggests their emotional health has dropped to its lowest level in 25 years. Researchers at t ...

Police used a cell-phone video of six Upper Darby students bullying 13-year-old Nadin Khouri to catch and arrest the teen’s torment ...

A Columbia University study suggests that children born soon after a sibling are at a higher risk for a diagnosis of autism. Rese ...

In communities across New Jersey, a new type of home is being built: the group home, which shelters people with disabilities, people tr ...

One of the much-heralded advantages of social media sites is that anyone in the world can talk to anyone else. But that doesn’t mea ...

Revisions are under way to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the bible of psychiatry.  Mental health profes ...

Philadelphia police working to find the “Kensington Strangler” have called in a forensic profiler to help with the case ...

Imagine walking down the street toward a familiar destination. Suddenly, you have no idea where you are, or where you are going. A Cherry ...

Philadelphia’s much-publicized high school drop-out rate hovers around 50 percent – and many drop-outs never return to school ...