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Spring 2025 Research Roundup
March 19, 2025 | Filed in: Research Roundup | STEPS for Youth | Community Engagement | Mental Health | Adversity, Bias, & DiscriminationIn this Research Roundup, we provide an overview of recent research about adolescent development that highlights the role of family relationships, sleep, adverse childhood experiences, and neighborhood characteristics in brain development and mental health.
Our Commitment to the Science of Adolescence
March 10, 2025The Center for the Developing Adolescent was founded on the belief that knowledge from the developmental science of adolescence can help us improve the lives of young people. Our nation and broader global community are experiencing a period of rapid policy and economic changes. In this time of swift actions and reactions, we remain committed to continuing our Center’s core work: to share what we…
5 Fast Facts About Peer Relationships and Friendships During Adolescence
February 27, 2025 | Filed in: Fact SheetThis fact sheet provides research-based facts about the importance and impact of friendships and peer relationships during adolescence.
Announcing the UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent’s 2024 Annual Report
February 24, 2025Our 2024 annual report highlights impact, research, news, and projects over the past year of working to improve adolescent health, education, and well-being through developmental science
Winter 2024 Research Roundup
December 17, 2024 | Filed in: Research Roundup | STEPS for Youth | Community Engagement | Mental Health | Adversity, Bias, & DiscriminationThis roundup provides an overview of recent research about adolescent development that examined the importance of parents’ ethnic-racial identity, the benefits of a mindfulness intervention, the link between agency and sense of purpose, the association between brain development and resilience to stress, and the link between heart rate variability and mental health.
Elections as Opportunities for Positive Adolescent Development
October 28, 2024 | Filed in: Council Report | Community EngagementA new resource from the National Scientific Council on Adolescence that offers ways to support positive development for young people during and after elections
Early Adolescence: A Window of Opportunity for Educators to Support Positive Mental Health
September 29, 2024 | Filed in: Council Report | STEPS for Youth | Education | Mental Health | Out-of-School Time | Digital TechThis council report from the National Scientific Council on Adolescence provides research-informed recommendations for middle-school and other early-adolescent educators to help promote mental health.
Summer 2024 Research Roundup
June 26, 2024 | Filed in: Research Roundup | STEPS for Youth | Education | Mental Health | Adversity, Bias, & DiscriminationThis roundup provides an overview of recent research about adolescent development that highlights the importance of support from parents and peers, the effects of neighborhood environments, the impact of racial and ethnic discrimination on sleep, and the trajectories of mental health and gender identity in youth.
The Connecting Adolescent Brain
May 23, 2024 | Filed in: Fact Sheet | STEPS for YouthThis fact sheet gives an overview of adolescent brain development and explains how access to resources, opportunities, and meaningful relationships during adolescence can build connections within our brains and with the world around us that support us into adulthood.
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Spring 2024 Research Roundup
March 20, 2024 | Filed in: Guide | Research Roundup | STEPS for Youth | Education | Community Engagement | Mental Health | Out-of-School Time | Adversity, Bias, & DiscriminationThis issue provides an overview of research showcasing the protective role of positive lifestyle factors for mental health, the benefits of continuing contribution, an effective intervention to support positive racial-ethnic identity exploration, synchronized brain activity between parents and youth, and the importance of timing in parental support.