Girls said that visual platforms, such as Instagram and TikTok, particularly reiterate gendered expectations for girls on how they should present themselves.

My teenage years, like many of our teenage years, were raw ones. I felt vulnerable, destabilized and confused, and I chronicled every bit of it on the pages of highly guarded diaries. Looking back, I ...

As I sat across the room from my new adolescent client, I couldn’t help but feel deeply disturbed by the degree to which she was experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression. As a 16-year-old high ...

Preteen girls' rates of depression are skyrocketing as social media use spikes among the younger generation, according to the most in-depth U.S. survey intended to examine the challenges facing girls ...

A visual from the study: The red circle shows where the participant is looking at that moment. The judge on the left is the positive judge, while the judge on the right is the potentially critical ...

Are today’s tween girls really more miserable than ever? It sure seems like it. By all indications, the incidence of depression and anxiety among all children has surged dramatically. In December, U.S ...

The stress among the friend group about their costume theme is giving me more anxiety than a haunted hayride. Trying to pick a group costume can be exciting for tweens—but it can also feel ...

The Witches of Pool Bottom uses dark humour and surrealism to explore how young women are taught to fear their own bodies while pretending it’s normal.

My teenage years, like many of our teenage years, were raw ones. I felt vulnerable, destabilized and confused, and I chronicled every bit of it on the pages of highly guarded diaries. Looking back, I ...