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
This is Me: Race and Identity in Adolescence
We talk with Harvard physics major Jara Wilensky, high school math star Noor Harwell, and Dr. Joanna Lee Williams about being Black women in science and how we form our identities in our adolescent ye...
3 Okt 202149min
When Mattering Really Matters
We talk with adolescent climate activist Jayden Foytlin, Cornell Professor Anthony Burrow, and San Francisco youth making a difference for their peers about the hunger to matter during adolescence, an...
1 Mar 202124min
When Screen Time is the New Normal
Experts weigh in on how tech use during COVID-19 is affecting adolescents, and what caretakers and educators can do to support their well-being.
25 Jul 202020min
Guts, Drama, and the Swirl of Emotions
We talk with bestselling graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier about feeling things deeply during adolescence—and why that's so important.
25 Jul 202020min
