I am so excited to read Jess P. Shatkin's new book, Born to Be Wild: Why Teens Take Risks and How We Can Help Keep Them Safe. Check back...

In my last post, I wrote about the epidemic of suicide among teenagers. There are probably a lot of causes for this, including increased...

I am often told by the teens I see for counseling that music-“my music” is their number one coping tool. My guess would be that many of...

She was just 16 years old and standing in front of an audience of 2,500 adults, most of whom were busy checking their emails, texts, or...

Parenting teenagers can be very challenging. They are no longer children and not yet adults. Sometimes we just have to stop, take a deep...

Our culture tells us to fear the time between childhood and adolescence and adolescence and adulthood. I will admit that it can be...