Cross-cutting research by a team from the School of Psychology at Cardiff University, UK, has uncovered a connection between self-blame among children and the risk factors that translate their experience of inter-parental conflict into poor academic achievement.

As social and emotional learning programs are introduced into the whole-school curriculum on both sides of the Atlantic, researchers in Illinois are beginning to establish which children may need them most.

Systematic reviews from the UK Cochrane collaboration agree that efforts to reverse the trend toward obesity in Europe and America’s children are best focused on family-wide interventions.

Socio-linguistics has found a way to bring systematic understanding to research findings that are consistent across most but not all cultures and those that differ markedly between cultures. Might a similar approach be useful to prevention science as it begins to reckon with the many similarities and few variations in the factors influencing children’s mental health in different parts of the world?

Just about everyone agrees that a balanced diet is a good idea, but a study behind bars may provide the first solid evidence that eating the right things boosts young people’s mental health.

Developmental studies in the Netherlands suggest that concentrating on the educational failings of children showing a propensity toward antisocial behavior may give them a better chance of escaping later trouble than enlisting them in specifically-designed conduct interventions.

Publication of a report on the long-term socioeconomic damage done by child abuse and neglect – said to be the first study of its kind in the US – makes a contribution to heated debate at home and abroad about the priorities of state-provided health care.

Vanderbilt University’s Len Bickman was in charge of the largest mental health services demonstration project for children ever conducted. When the results didn’t turn out as expected, Bickman decided to question some underlying assumptions. His surprising conclusions changed the course of mental health service for children in the United States.

How important studies of the early development of twins have shed new light on the relationship between hyperactivity and academic achievement.

The economic principle of diminishing returns applies to evidence-based programs just as much as it applies to products. What might work great at the experimental phase fizzles a little as it is rolled out into the community. A new study looks at how and why.

Many studies have shown that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) produces substantial short-term gains. But a new study shows that the good feelings, and outcomes, don’t end there. Wendy Silverman and her colleagues believe that a course of CBT can have children eliminating the negative for years to come.

There’s a blind spot in the research surrounding evidence-based programs. There just hasn’t been much analysis of how politics and institutional influences can affect a prevention program once it leaves the lab and is put into practice. But one researcher says that the analysis exists, we’re just not looking in the right place.