Teens across millennia have yearned to explore, try new things and participate in risky behaviours. The key difference, however, seems to be the experience of a rebellion or restlessness.
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Child-engaged research can facilitate new ways of listening to and supporting children as we move toward and through post-pandemic recovery.
New data suggests that lots of time on screens may even improve peer relationships. But the study comes with caveats.
Suspensions don’t just harm Black children – they also harm their parents’ employment, a school discipline expert argues in a forthcoming book.
The changes that society needs, such as preventing adolescent pregnancies, will not happen until researchers can use their findings to influence policy change.
Research on the brain’s development could help explain why mental health problems often arise first during adolescence.
Positive experiences in romantic relationships can improve communication skills and conflict management skills.
This decades-long study found that living in poorer communities changes how genes are regulated.
Exam revision and parties are a traditional part of growing up.
Understanding others’ emotions is a crucial social skill. Counter to concerns about screen time stunting kids’ development, one study suggests they’re getting better at recognizing emotion on screen.
Experts recommend adopted children be told about their origins, no matter how difficult the circumstances, but doing so is tricky for adoptive parents.
Dogs can behave like teenagers too. But it’s just a passing phase – and the quality of the dog-owner relationship matters.
Together the social and emotional ‘jobs’ of adolescence – developing intimate friendships and achieving autonomy – make teens uniquely resistant to calls for social distancing.
As many as 100,000 US adolescents currently spend at least part of the year in these therapeutic or disciplinary programs.
If you’re thinking about a smartphone, talk with your parents.
There’s an urgent need for interventions to increase uptake of antiretroviral therapy and improve services for adolescents.
If you thought this was about boring box-ticking chats before you leave school for the last time, think again.
Teens get a bad rap as selfish, dangerous risk-takers. But neuroscience and psychology research is revising that image: Adolescents are primed to help those around them, with positive benefits for all.
Navigating friendships as a teen can be hard. Parents can help by modelling good behaviour and making sure their teen feels they can talk to them about their friendships.
As their kids get older, should parents should be more – not less – vigilant?
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Wayne State University
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Senior lecturer, University of Adelaide
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Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
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Head of the Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Development and Director, Young Lives, University of Oxford
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Professor, Institute of Sport & Exercise Science, James Cook University
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Lecturer, School of Education (Qld), Australian Catholic University
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Reader in Developmental Psychopathology, University of Bath
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Research Assistant, African Population and Health Research Center
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Visiting Clinical Research Fellow in older people's substance use and mental health, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, King's College London
