Adolescent Health

Brain imaging is helping us understand why some teenage risk-taking may be beneficial during this important stage of human development

Improving sleep could be one way to help protect and support a young adolescent’s mental health and wellbeing – with long-lasting benefits

During training doctors see a lot of emergency presentations prior to entering General Practice, but evidence suggests they aren’t as confident in treating child mental health and behavioural problems

Families self-isolating together can bring the worst out in each other. Here’s how to avoid becoming a shark, turtle or fox, and instead, channeling your penguin, teddy-bear or owl

Psychologist and author Dr Katherine Canobi explores how teenagers respond to technology at a time when social media can help them disguise, or even escape from, reality

Adolescents around the world have been overlooked by the global health agenda, but for the first time we now have the data to make a difference

Adolescence has changed significantly in the last century. Professor Susan Sawyer is working to improve our understanding of the contemporary complexities of this age group

Teenagers with anorexia nervosa, the most serious of all eating disorders, don’t have to be ‘skinny’ - it’s possible to be diagnosed at any weight

A pilot study has found girls as young as 11 are seeking cosmetic surgery for their genitals. What’s going on?