21 Episodes

  1. Our Youth's Perspective 2025: AI and Public Policy

    Published: 6/4/2025

  2. Our Youth's Perspective 2025: Nature v. Nurture

    Published: 6/4/2025

  3. Our Youth's Perspective 2025: The Mind-Body Loop

    Published: 6/4/2025

  4. Social Media and Adolescents, part 2: Helping Youth Thrive in a Technocentric World

    Published: 1/17/2025

  5. Social Media and Adolescents, Part 1: "We Have the Whole World in Our Back Pockets"

    Published: 1/14/2025

  6. Our Youth's Perspective 2024: Parenting Styles

    Published: 6/6/2024

  7. Our Youth's Perspective 2024: Cultural Upbringing

    Published: 6/6/2024

  8. Our Youth's Perspective 2024: Sibling Relationships

    Published: 6/6/2024

  9. How Facing Big Feelings Can Help Build Mental Health

    Published: 8/17/2023

  10. Social Adaptivity: Developing Positive Relationship Skills in a Rapidly Changing World

    Published: 5/29/2023

  11. Our Youth’s Perspective, part 3: Developing Values, Goals, and Identity

    Published: 2/2/2023

  12. Our Youth's Perspectives part 2: Exploration and Risk Taking

    Published: 1/27/2023

  13. Our Youth's Perspectives part 1: Decision Making and Emotional Regulation

    Published: 1/20/2023

  14. Epic Journeys: What we can learn from adolescence across species

    Published: 12/16/2022

  15. Rooted in Connection: Reimagining the Foster System for Adolescents

    Published: 4/4/2022

  16. This is Me: Race and Identity in Adolescence

    Published: 10/3/2021

  17. When Mattering Really Matters

    Published: 3/1/2021

  18. When Screen Time is the New Normal

    Published: 7/25/2020

  19. Guts, Drama, and the Swirl of Emotions

    Published: 7/25/2020

  20. Scary but Thrilling: The Science of Taking Risks

    Published: 7/25/2020

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Taking risks. Falling in love. Figuring out who we are. Adolescents are constantly learning and adapting—in ways that are often misunderstood. Host Dr. Ron Dahl, Director of the Institute of Human Development at UC Berkeley, and his guests explore the science of adolescence on Adaptivity, a podcast by the UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent.