Thirteen year-old Alita told me she knew there was something wrong with her—something that made her “less than.” She felt that, somehow, she was “marked” and deeply unacceptable—even ugly—inside. She ...

Teen sitting against a wall with her arms covering her face. Rates of depression and other severe mental health conditions have become increasingly prevalent among teens—and a modern confluence of ...

Depression often looks strikingly different in adolescents than in adults, which can make it difficult for parents to pick up on signs of depression. Anger is one of the first signs of depression in ...

Screens are now an integral part of our daily lives, and their use raises more and more questions about their effects on ...

Parents trying to oust their teenagers from bed on the weekends should start letting them roll over and pull the covers back up, a new study suggests. Teens who use the weekend to catch up on sleep ...

Interest in adolescent mental health is growing as studies highlight increased stress, anxiety, and depression in this age group. Teens are facing increased biological, social, and environmental ...

If you’re alarmed by those numbers, you’re not alone. “I’m not surprised that there was a drastic increase [in depression], although I was surprised that it was 60 percent,” Heather Hagen, MS, LMFT, ...

As marijuana use among teens has grown in the past decade, researchers have been trying to better understand the health risks of the drug. Now, a new longitudinal study finds that cannabis use among ...

Rates of depression and anxiety have risen among teens over the last decade. Amid this ongoing mental health crisis, the American Psychological Association issued guidelines for parents to increase ...

Video games are more often regarded as causes of mental illness than as cures, but in a new study, a specially designed fantasy game helped teens conquer depression just as well as — if not better ...

Illinois teens are turning to alcohol and drug use at alarming rates. New research published May 8 from the University of Illinois finds that alcohol use among Illinois teens is now double the ...