Content warning: This episode contains discussions of suicide, anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. The advice shared in this episode …

Content warning: This episode contains discussions of suicide, anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. The advice shared in this episode …

In Teen Brain Trust’s 4-part series on teen mental health, therapist Dr. Dana Dorfman and mom of three Mya Dunlop unpack the current teen mental health crisis.

Learn where 15,000 Americans who took our Parenting Quiz fall among the four main parenting styles.

Host Mya Dunlop talks with two incredible teenagers about the modern teen experience, anxiety, social isolation as punishment, academic pressure, and more.

The traditional ways of parenting with punishment just don’t work. So what are parents to do when their teen exhibits unacceptable behavior, like lying?

Host Mya Dunlop shares the story of how a conversation with her oldest son who was struggling during his first year in college went off the rails . But thanks to a friend’s insight into microinvalidation, she course-corrected and learned a parenting lesson in the process.

Teens are obsessed with thriving socially—so how are they so clumsy and awkward in social situations? There are four main factors that neuroscience can explain. We break it down this frequently cringey process of development that the writer Quentin Crisp—not a neuroscientist—aptly described as rebeling and conforming at the same time.

Teens gonna party… And probably drink alcohol, too. Here’s why their beautiful brains seek out partying and how parents can help their kid healthy manage it all—and stay sane in the process.