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, ...

Assessment of stage of pubertal development is important both in clinical research with adolescents and in well adolescent health care. The physical examination needed to establish pubertal stage is ...

As challenging as coping with significant life change can be, as I’ve written previously, change is really the only constant during this one precious life we have. Indeed, life itself is an ongoing ...

The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, finds ample evidence that changes in brain structure ...

Researchers show that children and adolescents who spend most of their time barefoot develop motor skills differently from those who habitually wear shoes. Published in Frontiers in Pediatrics, this ...

Scientists have published a new study that says, generally, brain development moves out of the adolescent phase only by around age 32, and that this stage begins at 9 years old. According to ...