This post was written with Jessica Minahan and originally appeared in the Harvard Education Letter. About 10 percent of the school population, or 9–13 million children, struggle with mental health ...

As a child psychologist who specializes in helping kids with challenging behavior, I hear how often we parents take the blame for our kids’ behavior, whether the behavior happens at home, at school or ...

Challenging behavior at work involves crossing social and professional norms in a way that disrupts work and upsets co-workers. To manage such behavior, you must learn how to understand what happened ...

“Mrs. Jones” is in the middle of the dayroom, once again engaging in verbal abusiveness that disrupts the residents, families and staff on her unit. When Rosa, the CNA, notices this, she immediately ...

The main idea behind this model is that many behaviors we do are what we call learned behaviors. However, when we say that behaviors are learned, we don’t mean that you purposely taught your child to ...