My personal Facebook feed has been flooded with pictures of 2018 graduates, both high school and college students. For so many,...

Those of you who read my blog probably know that the development of adolescent brains and its effects on adolescent behavior is of deep...

Recently the American Academy of Pediatrics called for the institution of a universal depression screening for adolescents. According to...

March is Self Harm Awareness Month. What do parents need to know about self harm? First, it's not uncommon. An estimated 13-23% percent...

Last week, I posted advice for teens on how to better connect to the adults in their lives, excerpted from an interview I did with my...

Recently my good friend (and award winning author!) Lela Davidson and I sat down for a conversation about my work with teens, and I...

As promised, I want to share my reaction to Jess Shatkin’s book, Born to Be Wild. I can honestly say that this is a wonderful read, but a...

Recently, one of my clients shared a piece of writing with me that describes herself and she has allowed me to share it with you now. On...

I frequently use videos in my practice to encourage teens to talk about themselves, to explore their feelings, and to help them identify...

While I am reading Born to Be Wild, I wanted to share with you one of my all time favorite books about teens: Untangled: Guiding Teenage...

I am so excited to read Jess P. Shatkin's new book, Born to Be Wild: Why Teens Take Risks and How We Can Help Keep Them Safe. Check back...

Did you know that Iceland used to have terrible rates of drug and alcohol use among its youth, but that these have plummeted in the last...

In my last post, I wrote about the epidemic of suicide among teenagers. There are probably a lot of causes for this, including increased...

I am often told by the teens I see for counseling that music-“my music” is their number one coping tool. My guess would be that many of...

We opened the Teen Action and Support Center so that every teen who wants or needs a place at the table would be able to find a seat and wor

She was just 16 years old and standing in front of an audience of 2,500 adults, most of whom were busy checking their emails, texts, or...

Parenting teenagers can be very challenging. They are no longer children and not yet adults. Sometimes we just have to stop, take a deep...

Our culture tells us to fear the time between childhood and adolescence and adolescence and adulthood. I will admit that it can be...

I think it is interesting that in the same week we have had side-by-side examples of what kind of discipline works well with teenagers...