I have recently learned about the existence of the “cinnamon challenge” and the “eraser challenge.” Your task: Learn about these “challenges,” listen to your adolescent patients, incorporate risk and ...

Concluding this series of five blogs about mothering and fathering adolescents, consider some thoughts about mothers and teenage daughters. This blog is like saving the hardest of the four parenting ...

To continue this series about mothering and fathering adolescents, consider some thoughts about fathers and teenage sons. Fathering a little son who wants nothing so much as to be "just like my dad" ...

The formation of personal identity and separation from family are major developmental tasks of adolescence. Feelings of immortality and exception to the consequences of risky behavior may serve to ...