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Adolescent Anxiety Is Hard to Treat. New Drug-Free Approaches May Help
Adolescence is a remarkable period of development and learning, a time when youths explore and adapt to changes in their social worlds and begin to form a sense of who they are and hope to
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Teens Who View Their Homes as More Chaotic Than Their Siblings Have Poorer Mental Health in Adulthood
Many parents ponder why one of their children seems more emotionally troubled than the others. A new study in the United Kingdom reveals a possible basis for those differences.
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PSPI Live: Developmental Science Research Informs Juvenile Justice Reform
In a January PSPI Live webinar, authors of a forthcoming article came together to discuss juvenile justice reform.
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Detention Fails to Help Young Lawbreakers Avoid Further Offenses, Report Shows
Youth who are caught committing crimes are far less likely to reoffend when they receive rehabilitative help, such as therapy and life-skills training, rather than a legal punishment. Learn more about the new PSPI report and what bringing systems and science to find solutions could do to help young people.
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The Pandemic Disrupted Adolescent Brain Development
Before COVID, American teenagers’ psychological health was already in decline. The pandemic, with its sudden lockdowns, school closures and other jolts to normal life, made that downward slope steeper. The ensuing mental health crisis has
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Children today have less independence. Is that fueling a mental health crisis?
For years, Peter Gray, a research professor of psychology and neuroscience at Boston College, has been closely following two disturbing trends: the dwindling of independent activity and play afforded to children over the past half-century, and
