There are predictable “tasks” or processes that are associated with healthy adolescent development, depending on the adolescent phase. As adolescents progress through developmental phases and tasks, ...

Adolescent growth and social development shape the early development of offspring from preconception through to the post-partum period through distinct processes in males and females. At a time of ...

Child and Adolescent Development is the study of the biological, physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive growth and development of the child from conception through emerging adulthood. Using theory, ...

One of the most surprising findings is that the period the scientists refer to as “adolescence” starts around the age of nine ...

Most young people seem to understand that adolescence is no time to go it alone. Such social isolation can breed loneliness (“I don’t have friends to keep me company”) and ignorance (“No one tells me ...

Correspondence to Mr Michael Swain, School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2050, Australia; michael.swain{at}mq.edu.au Objective To determine whether there ...

While each experience of adolescence is individually unique, I believe that many changes and challenges are much the same for them all. Usually beginning around ages 9 to 13 years, this eight- to ...

Many mood and psychological disorders develop during adolescence; however, the relationship between adolescent stress-related neurogenesis and psychiatric illnesses during this period remains unclear.

ADOLESCENCE, according to Webster's first definition, is "the state or process of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood," and this is the meaning that will be given to the term in this ...

The data showed there is "non-linear change across development" in the brain, suggesting it does not continue on one steady ...