Author: Board on Children

At the request of Congress, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) will evaluate U.S. global programs to address HIV/AIDS. This book outlines the IOM's st...

Healthy mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) development is a critical foundation for a productive adulthood. Much is known about strategies to ...

Adolescence is a dynamic time for both brain development and social pressures, making it a critical period to understand mental, emotional, and beh...

With rapidly rising rates of mental health disorders, changing patterns of occurrence, and increasing levels of morbidity, the need for a better un...

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges to the nation's K-12 education system. The rush to slow the spread of the virus led to...

Access to oral health care is essential to promoting and maintaining overall health and well-being, yet only half of the population visits a dentis...

Adolescence is a time when youth make decisions, both good and bad, that have consequences for the rest of their lives. Some of these decisions put...

Suicide prevention initiatives are part of much broader systems connected to activities such as the diagnosis of mental illness, the recognition of...

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, whic...

With the worst human refugee crisis since World War II as the backdrop, from March 16 through March 18, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, E...

Adolescence is a critical growth period in which youth develop essential skills that prepare them for adulthood. Prevention and intervention progra...

A high-quality preschool education can foster critical development and learning that promotes joyful, affirming, and enriching learning opportuniti...

Many measurement systems to monitor the well-being of children and guide services are implemented across the community, state, and national levels ...

In the past decade, few subjects at the intersection of medicine and sports have generated as much public interest as sports-related concussions - ...

Adolescence is a crucial period of life for the prevention of substance use disorders. Research has shown that early intervention can significantly...

In 1993 the National Research Council released its landmark report Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect (NRC, 1993). That report identified child ...

The Cost of Inaction for Young Children Globally is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine Forum on Investing in Young Child...

Over the last three decades, researchers have made remarkable progress in creating and testing family-focused programs aimed at fostering the cogni...

The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United State...

Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The lo...

Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. Despite the serious and...

Speech and language are central to the human experience; they are the vital means by which people convey and receive knowledge, thoughts, feelings,...

Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents. There is an implication that individuals who are bullied must...

Increasing numbers of evidence-based interventions have proven effective in preventing and treating behavioral disorders in children. However, the ...