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Why We Use The Term ‘Emerging Adults’

1/20/2022

New Responses Emerge on 18- to 25-Year Olds Who Commit Crimes

Opinion

Lael E.H. Chester and Rachel Barkin

The field of emerging adult justice is new in the U.S. but the research that informs this field is well-established, write the authors.

3/7/2021

What We’ve Learned About The Child Brain

Colleen Connolly

Dr. Damien Fair, director of the Masonic Institute of the Developing Brain at the University of Minnesota Medical School, was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Photo courtesy of the MacArthur Foundation
Since he first began studying the brain in stroke patients using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, cognitive neuroscientist Damien Fair has become a star in the field of pediatric and adolescent brain development.

3/9/2016

What Children’s Brains Tell Us About Trauma: Invest Early

Opinion

Wendy Smith

This column was adapted from oral remarks given by the author, Wendy Smith, an associate dean at the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work, during a Congressional roundtable sponsored by the National Foster Youth Institute and the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth in February.

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11/23/2015

Too Often, Parental Rights Trump Kids Best Interest

Marie K. Cohen

It is National Adoption Month, and I’m remembering the four adoptions that I oversaw in my five years as a foster care social worker. These were among the happiest occasions in my child welfare career.

3/4/2015

Prosecuting Youth as Adults Fails to Address Trauma

Guest Writer

by Nisha Ajmani  Mark*, age 17, is one of many California adolescents currently detained in juvenile hall anxiously awaiting a judicial decision on whether they will be prosecuted as juveniles or adults.

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