To view the lives of adolescents through the lens of health care is to see a paradox: while most adolescents at this stage of life are thriving, they are also experiencing their moment of greatest ...

Commission co-chair, Professor Sarah Baird, George Washington University (U.S.) says, "The health and well-being of adolescents worldwide is at a tipping point, with mixed progress observed over the ...

Teens who start using cannabis before age 15 are more likely to use the drug often later in their lives. They are also more likely to develop mental and physical health problems in young adulthood ...

Global mortality continues to fall. Life expectancy has improved to unprecedented levels and deaths in young children have plummeted. Yet for adolescents and young adults, especially those aged 15 to ...

The right of adolescents to access confidential health care is sensitive and controversial. Recent challenges in the court system to adolescents' right to access abortion and contraception are eroding ...

Parents frequently express apprehension regarding the duration of mobile phone, tablet, and game console usage among their children. It is common to associate screens with nearly all childhood and ...

A new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders provides evidence that while depression in early adolescence is ...

When Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022, Roman and his family were forced to flee their hometown near Kyiv as Russian forces closed in. They travelled hundreds of ...

At Adolescent & Family Behavioral Health Services, we consider it a privilege and an honor every time someone works with us. We specialize in serving adults, young adults, adolescents, children, ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...