WASHINGTON — Legal responses to juvenile offending should be grounded in scientific knowledge about adolescent development and tailored to an individual offender's needs and social environment, says a ...

Until recently, the prevailing belief was that brain development ceased at around the time a child entered kindergarten (i.e., that the brain is 90-95% formed by age six). However, recent findings ...

The brain develops in spurts throughout childhood and adolescence, but not much is understood about the process. To disentangle this complicated puzzle surrounding one of the body’s most mysterious ...

The global burden of child and youth deaths remains high, despite dramatic reductions in under-5s deaths, and there are stark inequalities across the globe in the availability of health services to ...

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 ...

In Western cultures, adolescence is often viewed as a time of rebellion and irresponsibility. A new article published in the journal Child Development Perspectives synthesized recent research on ...

In the class of things that happen so often or predictably as to become truisms are the high-risk activities that teenagers frequently engage in, like driving too fast, using alcohol or drugs, ...

Sacramento State’s redesigned Child and Adolescent Development program, a major training hub, will better serve students learning to be teachers, counselors, social workers and other professionals, ...

Elizabeth Scott and Laurence Steinberg explore the dramatic changes in the law's conception of young offenders between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. At the ...

The mission of our English Language Arts Department is for staff, families, and community members to work in partnership to ensure that all students have adequate and equitable access to high-quality ...

Over the years, as I've delved deeper into my research on the development of decision-making, my empathy toward adolescents has grown significantly. I have come to recognize the complexity of the ...