Stories
- In pictures
Born to play
Our understanding of the importance of play in a child’s development has become increasingly sophisticated over the centuries. Explore the ways different eras have regarded childhood games.
- Article
Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test
The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.
- Article
This is a MOOD
Adults might sometimes dismiss teenagers’ ‘moodiness’, but adolescence is a time of complex shifts in brain and body, which are intricately bound up with fluctuating feelings.
- Article
Wonder years
The confusion and secrecy surrounding his condition seriously affected Chris’s mental health, blighting his teenage years. But somehow he began to hope and plan for the future.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
WHO Child and Adolescent Health and Development publications
Date: 1998Reference: PP/TYR/B/1/18Part of: Tyrrell, David (1925-2005)- Archives and manuscripts
Adolescent development, etc
Date: c.1950s-1960sReference: PP/EFG/A.25Part of: Griffith, Edward Fyfe (1895-1987)- Books
Adolescent development and adjustment / Lester D. Crow, Alice Crow.
Crow, Lester D. (Lester Donald), 1897-1983.Date: 1956- Books
Adolescent development and adjustment / Lester D. Crow, Alice Crow.
Crow, Lester D. (Lester Donald), 1897-1983.Date: [1965], ©1965- Books
Adolescent character and personality / by Robert J. Havighurst and Hilda Taba [in collaboration with Andrew W. Brown and others] the Committee on Human Development, the University of Chicago.
Havighurst, Robert J. (Robert James), 1900-1991.Date: 1949