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Study Suggests Why Teens Get Hooked on Cocaine More Easily Than Adults
(04/21/08)

Cooperative Classrooms Positive for Young Adolescents
(03/27/08)

Someone to Complain With Isn't Necessarily a Good Thing, Especially for Teenage Girls
(07/15/07)

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psychology news
Teen pregnancies up for first time in fifteen years
July 10, 2008, CNN

Weight gain in teen girls: Role of alcohol, internet, sleep
July 9, 2008, ScienceDaily

Does this make me look fat?
July 3, 2008, ScienceDaily

Mental risk of Facebook teens
July 3, 2008, BBC

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Monitor on Psychology
Academic ‘lost boys’
(April 2008)

Preventing teen suicide through familias
(April 2008)

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featured book cover Emerging Adults in America: Coming of Age in the 21st Century

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ADD and the College Student: A Guide for High School and College Students with Attention Deficit Disorder, Revised Edition

Intrusive Parenting: How Psychological Control Affects Children and Adolescents

Mom, Dad. I'm Gay. How Families Negotiate Coming Out

Breathe Easy: Young People's Guide to Asthma

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journals
A Meta-Analytic Review of Obesity Prevention Programs for Children and Adolescents: The Skinny on Interventions That Work
(September 2006)

The Prevention of Depression in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analytic Review
(June 2006)

What Influences Children's and Adolescents' Understanding of the Complexity of the Internet?
(May 2006)

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internal APA resources
Find a psychologist

Adults and Children Together (ACT) Against Violence

A guide for parents on raising an adolescent daughter

Resilience for teens

Schoolyard blues : Subtle social snubs hurt students

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Additional links
TeensHealth

Teenage brain: A work in progress

Antidepressant medications for children and adolescents

Sleep and teens

Adolescent health



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