How can parents distinguish between typical teenage behavior and signs of more serious mental health issues? Jessica Holzbauer, LCSW, shares her insights on recognizing normal developmental changes, ...

Depression is a major source of impairment and suffering in adolescence and is considered to be an important remediable risk factor for suicide, the second leading cause of death among adolescents in ...

In this rapidly evolving digital age, the challenges of adolescence—academic pressures, familial conflicts, and first heartbreaks, not to mention the normal ups and downs of childhood and ...

Children and adolescents may appear to be less at risk for severe COVID-19 symptoms, but the pandemic has significantly disrupted their lives in other ways. Social distancing and the interruption of ...

Should cannabis be made legal? And what impact would it have on the substance use of adolescents? Since the 1920s with the passage of the first laws banning the sale or possession of cannabis, similar ...

When parents maintain modest expectations about their influence on adolescent growth, they can reduce some of the pressure on themselves.

The expression “6-7” spread like wildfire last year, making its way outside the realm of usual adolescent slang and into the collective discourse, popping up at public sports events, in Halloween ...

Objectives Trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy (TF-CBT) is the established first-line treatment for paediatric post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but access to evidence-based care remains ...