Damour: There’s at least a few reasons: One is that it has always been true that girls, when distressed, are more likely to collapse in on themselves, whereas boys are more likely to act out.

DAMOUR: We do try, in the methodologies, to account for, you know, how comfortable any given group of young people is with reporting how they're feeling. And - because people do ask that question.

But Damour said parents should give kids some time to decompress and follow their cues. “And so if we can expect that or be on the lookout for them to bring things up, often we can connect then ...

DAMOUR: Well, there's a recent study that showed that 31 percent of girls reported suffering from symptoms of anxiety, compared to 13 percent of boys. So that's a pretty big gap.

Finally, Damour said talking about the broader impact of our food choices can also help, such as choosing between apples that are “relatively kind to the environment” or highly processed apple ...

Damour, who also is a lecturer at the Schubert Center for Child Studies at Case Western Reserve University, has been working with the writers and director of "Inside Out 2" since 2020, when they ...

But that feeling of anxiety isn’t inherently bad, Damour said. “Anxiety is valuable for teenagers if it does things like help them to get going on a test they have not studied for,” she said.

Damour is the author of three New York Times best sellers: Untangled, Under Pressure, and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers. She co-hosts the Ask Lisa podcast, works in collaboration with UNICEF ...

To Dr. Lisa Damour, the new data isn’t a surprise. “Teenagers are exposed to pornography far more often than many adults assume,” said Damour, an Ohio-based clinical psychologist ...