Adolescence is characterized by significant changes in several domains, including brain
structure and function, puberty, and social and environmental factors. Some of these …

Adolescence is a time of significant neural and behavioral change with remarkable
development in social, emotional, and cognitive skills. It is also a time of increased …

For decades many clinicians, especially psychodynamic and humanistic therapists, have
resisted thinking about their patients in terms of categorical diagnoses. In the current era …

ABSTRACT I describe an integrative social‐evolutionary model for the adaptive significance
of the human oxytocinergic system. The model is based on a role for this hormone in the …

How and why are teenagers different from children and adults? A key question concerns the
ways in which pubertal development shapes psychological changes in adolescence directly …

The main objective of the present research was to analyze the relations between stressful
life events and the externalizing and internalizing spectra of psychopathology using meta …

Research on the role of puberty in adolescent psychological development requires attention
to the meaning and measurement of pubertal development. Particular questions concern the …

Prevention and early intervention programs have been initiated worldwide to serve youth at
Clinical High Risk for Psychosis (CHR-P), who are adolescents and young adults …

The onset of bipolar disorder (BD) occurs in childhood or adolescence in half of the patients.
Early stages of BD usually present depressive episodes, which makes it difficult to be …

Psychotic disorders are highly debilitating with poor prognoses and courses of chronic
illness. In recent decades, conceptual models have shaped understanding, informed …