Middle Childhood (5-12 years)

The emotional, cognitive, and behavioral health of the nearly two million children of military service members in the United States is important as these children play an integral role in the operational readiness of the armed forces.

Military families often experience additional stress due to the military life style, and community support is an important factor that can reduce stress.

Military children often present with psychological health concerns related to their experience of deployments, reintegration, and frequent moves common in military life.

Introduction:School-age children report much stress in their daily lives, which may lead to psychological and physical problems. Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction is a program of awareness-based practices effective with adults.

Aim: Children and adolescents with bipolar parents have an elevated risk for anxiety disorders. However, antidepressant medications commonly used to treat symptoms of anxiety may accelerate the onset of mania in these already at‐risk youth.

This study examined the impact of child neglect during the first 4 years of life on adaptation to school during kindergarten and first grade in the context of neighborhood poverty (NP).

This research examined whether children’s threat and self-blame appraisals regarding interparental conflict and their beliefs about the justifiability of aggression  predicted children’s externalizing problems in families in which there had been recent severe intimate partner violence (IPV).

Objective: To examine whether increased provision of community-based services is associated with decreased psychiatric hospitalizations among children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).Design: Retrospective cohort study using discrete-time logistic regression to examine the association of ser

Child sexual abuse is considered a modifiable risk factor for mental disorders across the life course. However the long-term consequences of other forms of child maltreatment have not yet been systematically examined.