Youth and Consequences

Stress

Adolescent Communication 101: Tips for the Holidays

Janis Whitlock MPH, Ph.D. on December 21, 2018

Holiday family time means cookie making and good memories—as well as short tempers, eye rolls, and snarky comments. Here are five tips for communicating well over the holidays.

Holiday family time means cookie making and good memories—as well as short tempers, eye rolls, and snarky comments. Here are five tips for communicating well over the holidays.

Self-Harm

Kids Who Cut

Janis Whitlock MPH, Ph.D. on October 20, 2016

American youth are stressed. Non-suicidal self-injury is one response to stress that’s common among adolescents and young adults. To prepare adults, training programs are emerging.

American youth are stressed. Non-suicidal self-injury is one response to stress that’s common among adolescents and young adults. To prepare adults, training programs are emerging.

Parents really struggle when they find out a child is self-injuring. Here is some advice I gave a worried mom that might be useful for other worried parents.

Is preventing suicide the same as promoting life?

An estimated one in five secondary-school and college-age youth have intentionally cut, burned, carved, or otherwise injured their bodies without the intention of committing suicide. But why?

With the quest for happiness comes heightened risk for addictions of all sorts, particularly for youth.

Empirical data back up what we all know and suspect: Today's kids are more narcissistic than previous generations.

People need to know why.