A precocious 10-year-old straight out of a New Yorker cartoon grapples with status and a fracturing family in Gary Shteyngart ...

(Anxiety and depression can occur together.) Children with anxiety disorders are at increased risk of depression, substance abuse and suicidal behavior later in life. How to help your anxious child?

Letting children watch a favorite cartoon is an effective and safe way to reduce anxiety before anesthesia and surgery, concludes a new study.

In The Atlantic’s May issue, Kate Julian reports on the rise of anxiety and depression in children, and why changes in parenting may be one key to the solution.

Brain research suggests that telling anxious kids to "calm down," "stop crying," or "buck up" just doesn't work. However, these surprising strategies do.

Anxious kids tend to be perfectionists and very demanding of themselves. They develop habits that initially appear harmless, but can morph into patterns of behavior that are very problematic.

Anxiety was measured by interviewing the children's parents and through observation of each child's behavior. Interestingly, while anxiety was lowest for the toy group prior to entering the operating ...

While the cause of excessive anxiety in kids is uncertain, research suggests there may be a genetic component.

Watching cartoons through video glasses during dental treatment could help lessen children's anxiety and distress as well as reducing disruptive behavior, according to a randomized controlled trial.

The worst thing parents can do, mental health experts agree, is allow a child to stay home from school because they’re anxious.