Parenting styles play a crucial role in shaping adolescent development and can have long-lasting effects that extend into adulthood. Traditionally, parenting has been categorized into four main ...

Why do some teens develop restrictive or binge-eating habits? New research links brain maturation, genetics, and mental ...

Investigating the interplay of genetics, brain maturation, and mental health, this study reveals insights into adolescent ...

Human development is influenced by ... Over the past several decades, the age of puberty has been dropping for many young people, bringing an increasingly early end to childhood.

Despite being a first-line treatment for adolescent depression and anxiety, antidepressant drugs appear to have questionable efficacy and carry an increased risk of adverse effects in this population.

The developmental science of childhood and adolescence. Major theoretical perspectives, research methods, and ethical issues are presented with respect to prenatal development, infancy, childhood, ...

The study reveals that supporting adolescent mental health is a cost-effective investment, leading to improved economic ...

In most cases, delayed puberty is constitutional—a pattern of growth and development that runs in families—and these boys are generally healthy who will eventually go through puberty in time.