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Early Adolescence: A Window of Opportunity for Educators to Support Positive Mental Health
This council report from the National Scientific Council on Adolescence provides research-informed recommendations for middle-school and other early-adolescent educators to help promote mental health.
Adolescents Learn Essential Skills for Adulthood through Exploration, Discovery, and Taking Healthy Risks
This fact sheet reviews research that explains why adolescents are more motivated to take risks, why that’s important to learning and development, and how policies and practices could support healthy risk taking to promote positive development.
Six Insights to Support Adolescents’ Fundamental Need to Contribute to Others
This spotlight provides research-based insights into how opportunities to contribute and to have those contributions recognized can build autonomy, agency, and a healthy sense of purpose during adolescence.
How Teenagers’ Lack of Sleep is Taking a Toll on Their Mental Health
UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent Co-Executive Directors, Adriana Galván and Andrew Fuligni, spoke with the PBS NewsHour’s William Brangham about why sleep is so important to youth mental health.
Promoting Positive Development and Decreasing Risk in Online Spaces for Early Adolescents
This spotlight provides research-based recommendations for ensuring that digital technology used by early adolescents promotes healthy development while keeping young people safe online.
