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Think back to high school: everyone knew who was getting high or having sex or studying all day long, right? But what if we were all wrong?
Revising for exams is a necessary evil. Ever since written university exams were first set in England by the Cambridge chemist William Farrish in about 1792, students have struggled to revise. And with…
About three years ago, a teenage girl was talking with me and other students about using her cell phone late at night. She told us how she waited until her parents were asleep, then spent at least four…
Sexually abused adolescent girls with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experience better health outcomes from prolonged…
Increased time spent with peers may attune the teenage brain to the reward value of risky behaviour, leading to a focus on…
Cases of teenagers “sexting” each other have recently provoked panicked responses by media, parents, educators and policy makers in Australia. Now a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into the practice has…
Research conducted in seven secondary schools in southern California has confirmed previously acknowledged trends that popular…
Internet porn usage and risky sexual behaviour among adolescents have been linked in a recent study. Being exposed to internet…
Spending a lot of time on the Internet could be linked with poor body image for teenage girls. A study of 1100 teenage girls…
A study published today in the Lancet shows that while self-harm is relatively common among teenagers, most young people will naturally stop hurting themselves as they develop biologically and emotionally…
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Professor of Adolescent Health Research, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Sociology, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Crimniology, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Science Education, Sussex School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex
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Professor of Psychology, Bridgewater State University
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Post-doctoral fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Clinical Psychologist, Te Whatu Ora | HRC Clinical Research Training Fellow, University of Auckland, University of Auckland
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Community and Developmental Paediatrician, University of Auckland
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Lecturer in Digital and Social Media, Curtin University
