Our Youth's Perspective 2024: Sibling Relationships
The third and final episode of our 2024 "Our Youth's Perspective" miniseries of Adaptivity is about our relationships with our siblings. Youth Scientific Council on Adolescence members Andrea Rodrigue...
6 Jun 202418min
How Facing Big Feelings Can Help Build Mental Health
In this episode, Ron talks with psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Lisa Damour about how strong emotions during adolescence–good and bad–can be opportunities for youth to build positive coping st...
17 Aug 202352min
Social Adaptivity: Developing Positive Relationship Skills in a Rapidly Changing World
Host Ron Dahl talks with guests Thao Ha, Gustavo Carlo, and Yalda Uhls about how emotionally charged relationships during adolescence can help us learn to navigate personal relationships, find our rol...
29 Mai 202343min
Our Youth's Perspective, part 3: Developing Values, Goals, and Identity
In the third and last episode of "Our Youth's Perspective," a three-part miniseries of the Adaptivity podcast, YNSCA member Tomi Dugbo talks with Prof. Joanna Williams, Co-Director of the National Sci...
2 Feb 202317min
Our Youth's Perspectives part 2: Exploration and Risk Taking
In the second episode of "Our Youth's Perspective," a three-part miniseries of the Adaptivity podcast, YNSCA member Michael Nguyen talks with Adaptivity host and CDA founding director Dr. Ron Dahl abo...
27 Jan 202318min
Our Youth's Perspectives part 1: Decision Making and Emotional Regulation
In the first episode of "Our Youth's Perspective," a three-part miniseries of the Adaptivity podcast, YNSCA member Mahisa Mannan talks with UCLA CDA Co-Executive Director Adriana Galván about learning...
20 Jan 202319min
Epic Journeys: What we can learn from adolescence across species
Host Ron Dahl talks with best-selling author and evolutionary biologist Barbara Natterson Horowitz and anthropologist Rachna Reddy about adolescence across the animal kingdom–and how a cross-species p...
16 Des 202252min
Rooted in Connection: Reimagining the Foster System for Adolescents
The foster care system in the US is not designed to support what we now know about positive adolescent development. But it could be. Host Ron Dahl talks with experts Sixto Cancel and Leslie Leve about...
4 Apr 202245min
