By focusing too much on diagnosing mental disorders, we are teaching people to understand and label their distress in ...

I'm pleased to have my colleague, Dr. Alisha Pollastri, join me as a guest co-author for this particular blog. We are often asked how challenging behaviors relate to mental health disorders.

Patients in the 21st century are pretty lucky. Medical science and technology have advanced so much that we can diagnose many thousands of distinct conditions, and we can even take genetic tests that ...