Here are seven reasons why your teen might be struggling to make friends and the best ways to support them in changing this ...

More research is needed to explore how these friendships which are developed in adolescence aid resilient functioning in early adulthood, and also to investigate whether enhancing peer support ...

Research shows that most of us retain at least one close friend from adolescence – typically defined as 10 to 24 years old – who we turn to in times of hardship, change and celebration, even if we ...

A floater friend is someone who knows people but doesn’t have close, lasting connections with any of them. There are ways to ...

The writer tells about how secretive her teen age son has been about his friends. He never has told her anything about them beyond their names and has carried on mysterious phone conversations.

Adolescence is a challenging time for young ... distant person and that their teen’s friends have become more important to them than their family. But some of these changes are part of the ...

Four adolescent changes Why? Consider four kinds of growing changes now going on. There is more detachment for independence. “She wants more contact with friends and less with family.” ...

But “Brides” is first and foremost an examination of teenage female friendship in all its giddy ... a formative adolescent mistake being made in real time, life-saving and life-threatening ...