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If children and teenagers are comfortable with social media, we should use it as a means to reach them and ensure they understand the do’s and dont’s.
Setting a low age floor for legal access to cannabis could improve drug-use prevention, education, health and safety for youth, research suggests.
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Allowing young people to legally access marijuana will improve cannabis education and use-prevention, and hinder illegal activity.
Should we trust what they say?
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Surveys can help researchers better understand the lives of teens, but skeptics argue that youth are often dishonest and that the results cannot be trusted.
Teenagers who bully also have a high risk of mental health issues.
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When it comes to bullying, there is a common misconception that children neatly fall into a category of bully, victim, or not involved. This is not the case.
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Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is not the only game in town when it comes to treating depression in teenagers.
‘Wakey, wakey, sleepy head.’
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A wake-up call for early school mornings?
Vocational education plays a role in providing opportunities for low-achieving school students to engage further in study and get a job.
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Vocational Education and Training helps low school achievers up skill and avoid disadvantage in the workplace.
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The young adult novel “Eleanor & Park” is a frequent target for book challengers. But swears and sex aside, there’s something deeply subversive – and important – about this controversial book.
Why do teenagers need more sleep?
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Sleep deprivation in teenagers as a result of early morning school starts has been a topic of much debate. There’s more to this issue than just laziness.
Young people can help reshape academic research, bringing new focus to different issues that matter to them.
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Researchers and policy makers alike are missing out on a vital resource – young people themselves.
The wait is over.
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Why we should lament the sharp drop in the number of teenagers taking the one-year qualifications.
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What happens when games and social media infiltrate society to the point that we all become avatars and anonymous usernames?
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We’ve had enough studies suggesting that games are good for us. We need to start asking why.
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Teenagers are heavily influenced by what their friends eat, to the extent that they forget about their parents’ cooking.
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The high-school prom has been assimilated into British culture – but how far do ours deviate from the iconic American tradition?
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Conduct disorder is not just teen rebellion, as some experts claim. Brain scans suggest that it’s a psychiatric disorder.
Snapchat is a powerful tool for teens to communicate and experiment.
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The ephemeral social media platform Snapchat is a hit with young people. And while it can lead to risky behaviour, it can also encourage creative experimentation and socialisation.
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This French film about upper middle-class teenagers having orgies gets to the heart of teen sex issues in the age of YouTube.
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A book about drug addiction and prostitution aimed at ‘young adults’ was a very daring thing 20 years ago.
Sending children out of class isn’t an effective way to manage bad behaviour.
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Schools need to avoid practices that exclude badly behaved students and instead offer more ongoing, personalised support.