Mental Health

While it’s easy — and understandable — to roll your eyes when someone offers a “miracle cure” for your anxiety it’s also important to acknowledge this truth: There are day-to-day changes you can make that might help you manage your anxiety.

Thanks to academic and extracurricular stress, pushing kids to get into elite colleges, these children are now considered at-risk, along with kids living in poverty and foster care, recent immigrants, and those with incarcerated parents.

Anxiety is running rampant in high schools around the country, both rich and poor. It makes it hard for students to learn and to deal with life. Hear from two teens' and learn strategies educators and parents can use to help them cope.

They need to learn to push through, but parents can help.

New technologies are shedding light on what really makes adolescents tick - and providing clues on how we might reach them better.

Part of a parent's job is to help kids do their best, but pushing too hard can backfire. Research shows kids in high-achieving communities are at higher risk of anxiety, depression, and substance use.

With social and academic pressure mounting, a teacher shares what he's learned about tracking his students' mental well-being.

Changes in how we're spending our free time is a likely culprit.

And 4 tips for making things better.