Learning Team A EDD 563

Common stress factors for adolescents, how to react, how they cope and how gender, socioeconomic status, and race tie into adolescent stress

Good ways to promote positive adolescent self-concept/identity in school and at home.

Researchers have identified a genetic connection to optimism, self-esteem and perceived control over one's life

Interesting article, Dave. Thanks for posting.

Article explores pop culture and how it has influenced self esteem.

Substance abuse among young people is a much bigger problem than many parents realize. How big? One in 10 kids 12 to 17 years of age are current users of illicit drugs, according to a 2009 government survey.The good news? Parents can also do a lot more than some realize to help protect teens from drugs or alcohol.

More than 60 percent of teens said that drugs were sold, used, or kept at their school.

Article about how the nature of compromise changes as a child develops into an adolescent.

Research on the 5 best attitudes of effective teachers

If your child has a learning disability, or performance or behavior problems, this issue becomes magnified. Your child might feel as if he's fallen into a hole and doesn't know how to climb back out. (That hole can be caused by missed work, not understanding certain concepts at school, or social problems, among other things.)

It's the last thing any parent wants to hear her child say. "Mom, I didn't make the basketball team." Or "Dad, NYU rejected me." Even the incredulous "She invited everyone but me!" is enough to make your stomach churn. "Rejection is like breathing-an unavoidable, important part of life," says Harlan Cohen, founder of the International Risk-Taking Project.

Learn how even busy parents can help out their kids' schools -- whether you have 3 hours a day, a week or month or a year. When parents are involved in their children's education, children succeed at higher rates.

Child and adolescent theories and theorists

More on developmental theories

Helping parents with teens

Information on the developing adolescents.

Media's effects on teens

Describes various ways that parents can collaborate with teachers in the classroom to get more involved in their child's education.

Research on new ways that parents can reach out to their adolescents. Specifically research on adolescent reaction to parental monitoring.

interesting article on self concept and school success. Does school success result in self esteem? Or does high self esteem result in school success? Read to find out....

Every morning, Brittany Geldert stepped off the bus and bolted through the double doors of Fred Moore Middle School, her nerves already on high alert, bracing for the inevitable. "Dyke." Pretending not to hear, Brittany would walk briskly to her locker, past the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders who loitered in menacing packs.