While Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy undoubtedly works for traumatized children, a new review of the evidence base suggests that non-branded versions of this popular intervention reduce stress symptoms just as much as the branded package.

Traditionally, psychodynamic psychotherapy has been seen as lacking a credible evidence base, whether for children or adults. This is changing for adults. Is it about to change for children?

It is difficult for the non-specialist to know what is causing which adolescent disorder, and which interventions work best for each condition. A review of 37 preventive programs seeks to unravel this complexity and identify the features associated with success.

An intervention will more likely achieve its desired effects when implemented exactly as intended and without bias. But are researchers and practitioners doing everything they should to ensure adherence and quality in practice? The latest review suggests we may be concentrating on only parts of the picture.

Is the ability to report research clearly just as important as choosing the most rigorous research design? A recent review argues that criminologists can take inspiration from medical trials to give fellow academics and policy makers a clearer picture of how they found their results.

It’s tough being a teenager. One in five teens has a psychiatric disorder – and the rates of many problems increase in the teen years. But new research has discovered that some problems also get better in the transition from childhood to adolescence.

From the Harvard academic who worried Western societies with warnings that the essential fabric of community life was wearing out comes something worse 15 years and 9/11 later: evidence that inequalities are tearing the US remnant in two.

A new study by a member of the UK Dartington Social Research Unit team tries to bring light to the argument about how to improve the well-being of all Europe's children – by offering a definition of well-being that synthesizes insights into needs, rights, poverty and social exclusion.

For the first time in its history, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders has published a draft edition of its coming fifth edition. This means that mental health professionals, researchers and those affected by mental illness have an opportunity to shape the final work.

In the first of a series of articles, Prevention Action looks at the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, one of the world’s most influential psychiatric diagnostic tools, and how its latest edition is being developed.

A book summary of the results of the UK Good Childhood Inquiry makes the case for a new approach to child welfare and well-being retrieving – and promoting above creative individualism – ideas about public service and neighborly love.

Being a science dummy is bad for your health. That’s the argument put forth in Ben Goldacre’s book Bad Science. The good news is that Goldacre doesn’t make his medicine hard to swallow. He is engaging and unfailingly acerbic as he reports that the millions people are spending on too many ‘alternative cures’ is almost certainly a waste of money.