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Developmental Psychologist Says Teenagers Are Different

By Steve Hall

That's the title for, "A Conversation With Laurence Steinberg," conducted by Claudia Dreifus for the New York Times science section.Laurence Steinberg, a developmental psychologist at Temple University in Philadelphia, is one of the leading experts in the United States on adolescent behavior and adolescent brain biology. Dr. Steinberg, 57, has won the $1 million Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize, which will be awarded to him at a ceremony in early December in Switzerland. Here is an edited version of two conversations with Dr. Steinberg last month:Q. YOU HEAR PARENTS SOMETIMES SAY, ?I?M LIVING WITH AN INSANE PERSON. MY CHILD IS A TEENAGER.? ARE THEY BEING HYPERBOLIC?A. I?m not one of those people who labels adolescence as some sort of mental illness...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 02, 2009 (boomark / email).