There are predictable “tasks” or processes that are associated with healthy adolescent development, depending on the adolescent phase. As adolescents progress through developmental phases and tasks, ...

Quality of life and interpersonal support among adult patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy at an academic cancer institute. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2024 ASCO Quality Care ...

An advanced seminar to consider special topics in developmental psychology with focus on critique of the theoretical and empirical literature, identification of future research pathways, and the ...

At a young age, I asked my parents if they had adopted me. A common question. My twist: Had I been adopted from an alien family? Like many neurodivergent people, I struggled significantly to fit in ...

It’s graduation season and while we often focus on kindergartners in their tiny caps and gowns, the high school students who have made it through, or the college students ready to embark on their next ...

Human development is the study of how people grow and change, from conception through the end of life. The changing nature of the American family, childhood and adolescence, the cultural dynamics of ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, ...