Dr. Bruce Gerberg is one of a growing number of pediatricians prescribing drugs for depression, anxiety and other mental health issues due to a shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists.

For more information on getting the Mental Health Mobile Unit into your community, you can visit their website or give them a call at 561-244-9499.

A father’s poor mental health may harm child development, a new study has found. Here’s how fathers, too, can get the support they need.

In Iowa, state officials are ramping up efforts to divert families from this drastic pathway. But given the severity of some of the mental health conditions, they say they are struggling to meet ...

Parenting styles that included physical discipline and overcontrolling behavior, referred to as "hostile" parenting, were found to nearly double the risk for their children to develop mental ...

Finding a pediatrician who understands child mental health is key to getting the right support for anxiety, ADHD or depression. Experts from UChicago Medicine share how to choose a doctor who will be ...

By 2021, about one in every four (25.9%) American children was diagnosed with a mental health issue -- more than 9 million children in total, the researchers estimated. Household spending on child ...

As the severity of the child mental health crisis came into full view during the COVID-19 pandemic, Illinois state officials became serious about writing policy that could help transform how ...

Legislators made major strides in 2022 to address increases in youth mental health issues. We need to build on this foundation and continue working toward child mental health care reform.