There’s little evidence that screen time harms adolescents’ mental health, and the pandemic highlights how we should look for its benefits.
Professor Candice L. OdgersJune 2020
Articles relating adolescence and teenage psychology and the problems of adolescence, by some of the world’s top child and family researchers.
Themes relating to the adolescent years and parenting teens, covering the social, emotional and brain development of teenagers. Covering research into peer social pressure and how to encourage adolescents not to smoke, drink, take drugs and engage in offending behaviour.
The key predictor of antisocial behavior and violent crime (as opposed to nonviolent crime) is poor emotion regulation in early childhood.
Child & Family Blog EditorJuly 2019
The longer a girl is exposed to her father during her childhood, the more influence his parenting has on her adolescent sexual activity.
Child & Family Blog EditorJune 2017
Adolescent capacities to cope with stress, manage emotions and make good decisions are interlinked but too often they are tackled separately.
Dr Kathryn ModeckiJune 2017
A study that followed 1,482 young people has found links between harsh parenting at 12 years of age and lower educational attainment at 21.
Child & Family Blog EditorMay 2017
They say that sharing secrets is vital for their mental health, yet they struggle to keep friendship as pressures to “man up” intensify.
Professor Niobe WayMay 2017
There is a strong correlation between the average exposure to a poor quality neighborhood between the ages of 1 and 17 and later poor health.
Child & Family Blog EditorApril 2017
Early predictors of extreme antisocial behavior are low empathy, low guilt and emotional sensitivity and uncaring behavior.
Child & Family Blog EditorApril 2017
