After gunfire near the Kansas City Zoo and fights at the Country Club Plaza have led police and some residents to blame directionless teenagers for the problems, a new program is trying to find ...

Bart Trevino knows the stare. He’s seen it a thousand times working with at-risk teenage kids in the San Fernando Valley. The dead eyes looking through you like you don’t exist. The body language that ...

Kids have their own preferences and are developing a sense of autonomy and control. They also figure out which responses lead to the most favorable outcomes. As a parent, there are ways to honor their ...

“Demand avoidance”—a knee-jerk, defiant reaction to any direction to cooperate with a task or to make a transition—is a phenomenon that I see frequently in my work with families of highly sensitive ...