Topic Area: Community & Civic Engagement

  • June 3, 2025
    Youth Scientific Council on Adolescence members Abril Rodriguez Martell, Emily Zhu, and Sebastian Gaytan D’Amico talk with UCLA Professor Leanna…
  • March 19, 2025
    This roundup provides an overview of recent research into adolescent development, highlighting the role of family relationships, sleep, adverse childhood experiences, and neighborhood characteristics in brain development and mental health.
  • December 17, 2024
    This roundup provides an overview of recent research about adolescent development that examined the importance of parents’ ethnic-racial identity, the benefits of a mindfulness intervention, the link between agency and sense of purpose, the association between brain development and resilience to stress, and the link between heart rate variability and mental health.
  • Elections as Opportunities for Positive Adolescent Development

    October 29, 2024
    A new resource from the National Scientific Council on Adolescence that offers ways to support positive development for young people during and after elections
  • October 24, 2024
    In the last discussion of our 2024 Adolescent Brain Development Symposium, Joanna Williams, Senior Director of Research at Search Institute,…