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Teens and the Search for Identity

The stereotype of teenagers back in the hippie days of the 1960s remembers kids as oftentimes talking about trying to “find myself.” While today’s teens rarely if ever hitchhike to California as part of that quest, the single most important…
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Identity and the Peer Group

In her book Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain, Sarah Jayne Blakemore reminds us that for teenagers, what she calls the social self becomes central. A teen’s social self is all about expressing who you and how…
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Willow Smith and Polyamory

Twenty-year-old Willow Smith is the hit-music-making daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. Popular among our children and teens, she is one of today’s influencers regarding belief and behavior. Back in 2019, she came out as bisexual. Just recently,…
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Teens and Identity Formation

One of the main developmental tasks of adolescence is identity formation. Teenagers are living through a period of life where they are trying to find answers to one of the most basic of all questions: Who am I? Consequently, we…
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