In classrooms across the country, teachers are facing a crisis that goes beyond test scores and curriculum standards. For many middle and high school educators, managing disruptive behavior has become ...

To understand some of the difficulties inherent in promoting safer sexual practices (or even abstinence) among adolescents, it is helpful to become familiar with cognitive and interpersonal factors ...

For most moms and dads, as their child begins the 10- to 12-year coming-of-age passage, the growing transformation we call adolescence (usually beginning around ages 9 to 13), parenting becomes more ...

Goodness knows, it’s easy to do — taking personally what the adolescent is doing or not doing that the parent doesn’t want or otherwise finds offensive. “She left that mess to irritate me!” “He didn’t ...