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DEVELOPING BRAIN
Books:
- Inventing Ourselves, The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (2018)
- Brainstorm by Dan Siegel (2014)
- The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults by Frances Jensen (2015)
Videos:
- Dan Siegel: The Purpose of the Teenage Brain (TED Talk, 2014, 8:19 minutes)
- The Mysterious Workings of the Adolescent Brain TED Talk by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (2012)
Podcasts & Websites:
- What Were You Thinking: Inside the Adolescent Brain A Podcast by NPR's Dina Temple-Raston (listen from 4:08-17:38 to learn more)
Articles, Interviews & Blogs:
- What’s Going On Inside the Teen Brain? (Mindful Magazine, 2016, www.mindful.org)
- Teaching Kids & Teens How To Connect With Others, Outside Their Digital World (Hey Sigmund, 2018)
- 'What Were You Thinking' is a podcast parents need to hear (The Washington Post, January 17, 2018)
TEEN STRESS
Articles, Interviews & Blogs:
- 'No Worse Fate Than Failure': How Pressure to Keep Up is Overwhelming Students in Elite Districts (Chicago Tribune, November 13, 2017)
- How Teens Today Are Different from Past Generations (Greater Good Science Center Berkeley, October 20,2017)
- Why Are More American Teenagers Suffering From Severe Anxiety? (New York Times, October 11, 2017)
- Teen Stress Is on the Rise: Why It's a Major Problem, and How You Can Help (People, May 14, 2018)
- Anxiety in Teens – How to Help a Teenager Deal With Anxiety (Hey Sigmund by Karen Young, October, 2017)
- It Takes a Suburb: A Town Struggles to Ease Student Stress (New York Times, April, 2017)
- Student Stress Is Education’s Overlooked Crisis (Education Week, 2016)
- Who Are Generation Z? The latest data on today's teens (Guardian, December 10, 2016)
Books:
- Be Mindful & Stress Less: 50 ways to deal with your (crazy) life. Gina Biegel (2018). Boulder, CO: Shambhala.
- The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal with Stress (An Instant Help Book for Teens) Gina Biegel (2017). Oakland, CA: Instant Help Books
Videos:
- Generation Stress: From Surviving to Thriving- Kristen Race (TEDxMileHigh, 2015)