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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.
The Story We’re Telling About Youth Mental Health is Hurting Our Kids
In an opinion for Newsweek , UCLA CDA Co-Executive Director Andrew Fuligni and FrameWorks Institute CEO Nat Kendall-Taylor explain why the persistent narrative that young people are in crisis may actually impede action that could support youth.
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.
A Developmental Path to Policy and Programs
This spotlight offers examples of policies and programs that take a research-informed, developmental approach to supporting adolescents.
