Behavioral Health

Meat, candy, sweets and alcohol are traditionally the things Christians give up during Lent. In recent years, Facebook and Twitter have m ...

When a child isn’t hitting developmental milestones such as crawling, walking and talking, parents worry and start looking for answ ...

Passover begins tonight. It is one of the most widely observed Jewish holidays. It commemorates the story of the Exodus, in which the anc ...

Legislation passed after the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting was supposed to ensure that people with a record of severe mental illness couldn ...

After a divorce, legal agreements typically regulate how parents will split their time with their children–but what happens when a ...

They have been called “twixters” “adult-escents” or the “boomerang generation,” young adults of the u ...

A Holocaust survivor with ties to a local organization was awarded the nation’s highest honor for civilians yesterday; the Medal of ...

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 ...