More research is needed to explore how these friendships which are developed in adolescence aid resilient functioning in early adulthood, and also to investigate whether enhancing peer support ...

In the hundreds of hours I spent interviewing young people, I began to think of every teen love story as a mental health ...

A floater friend is someone who knows people but doesn’t have close, lasting connections with any of them. There are ways to ...

The writer tells about how secretive her teen age son has been about his friends. He never has told her anything about them beyond their names and has carried on mysterious phone conversations.

But friendships from our teens and early twenties can often fall into a different category altogether, standing firm over decades while everything else around us changes. Research shows that most of ...

I received an unexpected phone call from a cherished family friend, someone I hadn’t met in 17 long years. Our last interaction ha ...

Adolescence is a tumultuous time, and a therapist can help with the challenges that arise, whether they relate to emotions, academics, disruptive behaviors, self-esteem, friendships, family ...