The term “behavioral health” refers to the connection between a person’s habits, actions, and emotional well-being, which affect their overall health. Behavioral health encompasses mental health ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers a blueprint that the U.S. can use to expand evidence-based interventions to prevent mental, ...

That is an advocacy firm’s response to a U.S. Department of Justice report that the state of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma City Police Department have violated federal laws and unnecessarily ...

A friend of mine who is a primary care physician recently lamented that when he referred a patient for treatment for depression, they usually were put on a four-month waitlist. He really wanted to be ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The University of Montana workshop "State of Mind" is working to destigmatize mental and behavioral health issues. The workshop works with local high school students, teachers, ...

A long-term study of 292 families linked fathers’ parenting style to their children’s heart health years later. To ...

When a parent suffered trauma as a child, their kids are affected. Trauma in childhood echoes through generations, according to new research that could have implications for thousands of migrant ...

Social media contributes to eating disorder by sharing unrealistic beauty standards, encouraging constant comparison and spreading content about harmful dieting.

Grand Forks, N.D.-based Altru Health System is working to prevent behavioral health crises before they happen and opened a new health center to keep care in the community, the Grand Forks Herald ...

Advocates in the Metro are raising red flags about proposed changes to Nebraska's behavioral health and Medicaid division ...