Adolescence is a time of growth and often teenagers feel as though they are walking a tighrope between what their parents want and what they themselves desire as they struggle for independence. This webpage focuses on the social and emotional growth and developmental needs of adolescents. It is an electronic guide to information on adolescent issues. Educators, counselors, parents, researchers, health practitioners, and teens can use this page to find web resources on many adolescent topics.
1. Center for Adolescent Studies. The Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University focuses on meeting the social and emotional growth and development needs of adolescents through providing support to adults working with youth, investigating current social issues and providing tools for teens to learn and practice new, healthy behaviors.
2. Adolescence Directory Online. Everything you always wanted to know about the teenage years. Adolescence Directory On-Line (ADOL) is an electronic guide to information on adolescent issues. Educators, counselors, parents, researchers, health practitioners, and teens can use ADOL to find web resources on many topics.
3. Adolescence: Change and Continuity: Adolescence is a time when our bodies, our families, our schools, and the larger society demand that we change. This website provides an introduction to some of the developmental changes that shape our lives between puberty and the end of college. Although each life unfolds in its own unique pattern, this site provides information about basic changes, settings, and issues that are particular to the teenage years.
4. Band-Aids and BlackBoards: Experts Share Their Tips: Tips for parents, teachers, nurses and doctors from kids and teens growing up with medical problems. Its goal is to help people understand what it's like, from the perspective of the children and teens who are doing just that.
Created by Dr. R. Bruce Lewis for
illustration purposes for Educational Psychology (PSY 306).
Last updated on April 7, 1999.