Suicide (Part Two)
Dr. Andrew Leuchter, Director of Adult Psychiatry at UCLA, talks about the correlation between suicide and age. Dr. Leuchter explains that the risk for suicide goes up during adolescence and then again after middle age, particularly among elderly wh...
Parents and Children.: Parenting and Adolescence
Adolescence is the stage of life between childhood and adulthood. It is often a time of great confusion and conflicting emotions, both for adolescents and their parents.
In the Driver's Seat: Sex Motivation
Although men and women are motivated to be sexually desirably, the biological urge for sex differs from motives such as thirst and hunger. Beginning in adolescence, sex motivates both men and women but in different ways in terms of their response pa...
The Becoming Years: Physical Development During Adolescence
Adolescence, roughly spanning the ages from 10 to 20, is a transitional time when children are becoming adults. It is a period marked by profound physical and psychological changes. One of the most important features of adolescence is the biological...
The Becoming Years: Development: from Womb to Tomb
Adolescence and older adulthood, two stages of development at near opposite end of life, share a common thread of exploration, discovery, and growth. From womb to tomb-childhood, adolescence, early and middle adulthood , the years of old age-- we ar...