Approximately 20% of American adolescents experience a mental health disorder each year, a number that has been on the rise. Genetics and life events contribute, but because so many factors are ...

TikTok staffers privately raised concerns over the wildly popular app’s impact on mental health — despite the company’s public claims that it’s safe for kids and teens, according to newly unsealed ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are no longer a novelty for U.S. teenagers. They’re a habit. A new Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 64 percent have ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A holiday Wiffle ball tournament hopes to address serious issues for teenagers. Nearly a year ago, one popular Johnson County teen died by suicide, and Monday’s tournament hopes to ...

When it comes to teens' mental health, whether things are improving or declining appears to depend on who you ask. Recent data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) suggests that the ...

Parenting teenagers has always been challenging, but today’s parents face an unprecedented dilemma: protecting teens from digital dangers while respecting their need for independence and social ...

Roughly two-thirds of American teens aged 13 to 17 say they use AI chatbots, according to a new study by Pew Research Center, with three-in-ten saying that they use them daily. Going even beyond daily ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine the results of a recent survey ...

Black adolescents with psychological distress are less likely to report using mental health care than their White counterparts, according to a new study of teenagers in Ontario. The disparity was ...

From Pong and Pac-Man to Minecraft and Fortnight, video games have always been a lot of fun. Sometimes, however, gamers become fixated, compulsive or — worse — spiral into a full-blown gaming disorder ...

In a new study, researchers at WashU Medicine mined an enormous set of data collected from pre-teens and teens across the U.S. and found that conflicts with family or peers were the strongest ...

When it comes to teens’ mental health, whether things are improving or declining appears to depend on who you ask. Recent data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) suggests that the ...