Free Resources on Adolescent Development
Books
Blakemore, S. J. Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain. PublicAffairs, NY: 2018.
Bradley, M., & Giedd, J. Yes, Your Teen is Crazy! Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind. Harbor Press, Gig Harbor, WA: 2002.
Brizendine, Louann, MD. The Male Brain. Three Rivers Press, NY: 2011.
Brizendine, Louann, MD. The Female Brain. Morgan Road Books, NY: 2006.
Bronson, P.O., and Merryman, A. Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children. Twelve, New York, NY: 2009.
Brown P., Roediger H. and McDaniel, A. Make it Stick; The Science of Successful Learning. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2014.
Carskadon, M.A. (Editor). Adolescent Sleep Patterns: Biological, Social, and Psychological Influences. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002.
Crawford, Glenda. Brain-Based Teaching with the Adolescent Learning in Mind. Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, CA: 2007.
Dawson, P. & Guare, R. Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents. Guilford Press, New York, NY: 2004.
Jensen, F. E., and Nutt, A. E. The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults. HarperCollins, New York, NY: 2015.
Simmons, Rachel. Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. Harcourt Inc., New York, NY: 2002.
Steinberg, Laurence. Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence. Mariner Books, NY: 2015.
Wang, Sam. Welcome to Your Child's Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College. Bloomsbury, New York, NY: 2011.
White, Adam & Swartzwekder, Scott. What Are They Thinking?: The Straight Facts about the RiskTaking, Social-Networking, Still-Developing Teen Brain. W.W. Norton, New York, NY: 2013.
Videos
Terence Houlihan’s TEDx talk on parenting teens
Sarah Jayne Blakemore’s TED talk on the teen brain
Sonia Livingstone’s TED talk on parenting digital kids
Study Less, Study Smart clip for helping teens hone their memory skills
Web sites
www.nida.nih.gov : National Institute on Drug Abuse
http://www.positscience.com/human-brain : Excellent resource on the mechanics of the brain
http://www.cyfernet.org/index.php?c=2 : Information on the enhancement of social competency and the reduction of risk behaviors among youth.
www.sleepfoundation.org : National Sleep Foundation
http://www.nimh.nih.gov : National Institute on Mental Health
http://www.aacap.org/ : American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
http://site.educ.indiana.edu/Default.aspx?alias=site.educ.indiana.edu/cafs : Center for Adolescent and Family Studies, Indiana University
http://www.learner.org/courses/neuroscience/index.html : Neuroscience and the Classroom
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/ : PBS’ in-depth look at the latest in neuroscience and adolescent development
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/10/teenage-brains/dobbs-text : National Geographic’s online magazine
http://faculty.bucks.edu/specpop/studyskills.htm : All things study skills-related
http://parents.com : The quintessential website for parents
http://psychologytoday.com : Psychology Today’s webpage for parents