Adolescence


Adolescence: Change and Continuity
This site offers a discussion of puberty, sexualty, biological changes, cross-cultural differences, and nutrition for adolescents, including a look at obesity.

Adolescent Health - Online
A site by the American Medical Association with information and links, resources, services, science updates, and guidelines for adolescent development and health.

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Includes up-to-date date on a host of topics that include facts for families, public health, and clinical practice. Includes a current report on Mental Health by the Surgeon General. Also includes a report on the emotional, behavioral and cognitive development of infants, children and pre-adolescents. In addition a detailed report on the emotional, behavioral and cognitive development of adolescents from their early to late years.

Ask NOAH About: Mental Health for Adolescents
NOAH's Web site contains information about child and adolescent family problems, mental conditions and disorders, suicide prevention, guidelines for parents, how to deal with traumas and disasters. A wonderful and informative web sites with many links.

Biological Changes in Adolescence
This site offers a discussion of puberty, sexuality, biological changes, cross-cultural differences, and nutrition for adolescents, including a look at obesity.

CYFERNET-Youth Development
An excellent source of many articles on youth development, early childhood, school age children, teens, parents and family, and community.

Facts for Families
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry provides concise, up-to-date information on issues that affect teenagers and their families.  Fifty-six fact sheets include many teenager's issues.

VIDEO CLIPS

Dr. Howard Bernstein on Adolescence
Beloved scholar and educator Dr. Howard R. Bernstein died on Jan. 15, 2007. This is an excerpt from one of his final interviews. This is an early edit of a documentary about Dr. Bernstein's life, his academic career, and the lives he has touched in the classroom. Interviews with several generations of students in an attempt to explain Dr. Bernstein's uncommonly sucessful teaching methodology. Dr. Bernstein is battling terminal cancer. Directed by Eric Byler, former student of Dr. Bernstein's at Wesleyan University.

Adolescent Development
Dr. Richard Falzone describes the developmental tasks of adolescence.

The Adolescent Brain
Discusses brain development during the adolescent period of development.

Harajuku Girls
About teen fashion and consciousness during the adolescent years in Tokyo, Japan.