Valli Parthasarathy, DVM, PhD, DACVB, discusses how veterinarians can evaluate feather loss, self-mutilation, and ...
Experiencing childhood trauma appears to increase a young person's likelihood of smoking, substance use and developing ...
Valli Parthasarathy, DVM, PhD, DACVB, discusses how veterinarians can recognize and manage common behavior problems in pet ...
Do abuse and neglect cause behavior problems among children or do behavior problems among children cause abuse and neglect? A new study from researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human ...
The reason gifted children are often treated as 'problem children' at school is not that their high intelligence itself is the problem, but rather that their behavior is difficult to fit into the ...
Most dog owners try to fix behavior problems one command at a time — sit, stay, heel, stop jumping, stop pulling. But what if most obedience and behavior issues come from the same root cause? In this ...
A researcher at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) has found that more than 99% of dogs in the United States show behaviors that are potentially problematic, ...
How should we respond to a child's inappropriate behavior?When working with children, it is inevitable that our eyes turn toward their "problem behaviors."However, I believe that if you only look at ...
Children who cry for abnormal periods of time during much of their infancy are more likely than their peers to exhibit hyperactivity and academic problems during their middle childhood. Infants were ...