Stephen is a school psychologist and director of the Center for Adolescent Research and Education (CARE).
Mike, Jim, Sarah, Eric, Jake, Marina, Michael, Hunter, Pierce, Jack … names that roll off my tongue too readily, capturing the enormity of loss too often. In the life paradigm that is a calculation...
Youth mental health challenges are real, omnipresent, exacerbated by the pandemic and devastating.
Despite the pervasive optimism about what's ahead, a vast majority of Americans says that we are experiencing a mental health crisis.
Stephen’s new Psychology Today article, “Post Pandemic: Why the Kids May Not be OK,” looks at the current mental health crisis in America and looks ahead to a post-pandemic world in which youth are...
Stephen’s new article for Psychology Today, “Rescued or Ready?” explores the undeniable link between summer camp and the development of resilience in youth. It includes commentary of one young man’s...
In a world filled with out-of-school time options for young adults, new research from the Center for Adolescent Research and Education (CARE) in collaboration with Coastal Carolina University points...
Bottom line: teens need more sleep (think exhausting brain recalibration) and different schedules (more nocturnal than diurnal).
In a May/June 2018 Camping Magazine article, “Happy Campers – A Counterintuitive Conversation About Youth Mental Health,” I sought to reconcile the way most kids at summer camp say they feel with a...
Daughtry’s song “September” evokes a playful, positive risk-taking spirit not dissimilar to the kind displayed by millions of children at summer camp each year. As he says of playing in the rain,...
When it comes to the topic of risky youth behavior, recent data (and events) present both good news and bad news.
