Approaches to youth development that enhance connectedness and opportunities for young people are key to adolescent health and wellbeing argue Robert Blum and colleagues Social connections are ...

Adolescence is a time of marked improvements in cognitive abilities, such as abstract reasoning, problem solving and creative thought. More generally, it is also an important developmental period for ...

Department of Human Development and Family Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States Parenting is a key influence and prevention target for adolescent substance use, and changes ...

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Background: Previous studies on the impact of paternal and maternal depression on adolescent depression have shown inconsistent findings, and none have examined the influence of parental depression ...

This article introduces and summarizes the goals of the symposium. It also provides an overview of a conceptual framework for understanding adolescence, which ...

The use of mobile technology is among children and adolescents is very diverse, research shows. The work points to great complexity in the effects of that usage. A new special section of Child ...