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, ...

Adolescence is a period of social reorientation: a shift from a world centered on parents and family to one shaped by peers, ...

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, ...

Researchers at UCL Institute of Education, King's College London, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and UCLA report ...

Social experience sculpts the teenage brain. Source: iStock/pixelfit Humans are fundamentally social, and perhaps never more so than in adolescence when hanging out with friends is the top priority ...

What Is Social and Emotional Development? There are five major social and emotional “issues” that teens deal with during their adolescent years. These include: Establishing an identity. This has been ...

New research from the University of Liverpool suggests that the way young people spend their free time may play a crucial ...

Adolescents who regularly choose solitude over social connection show measurable differences in brain structure and function, according to a large neuroimaging study.

In one of the first long-term studies on adolescent neural development and technology use, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill report adolescents' habitual checking of ...

Adolescent literacy refers to the literacy skills, strategies, and knowledge students need from fourth grade forward to effectively read, write, listen, and speak in a variety of communities, ...