Title: Teenage Depression Rates Rising | Newport Academy
Headings: New Study Shows Teenage Depression Rates Rising
New Study Shows Teenage Depression Rates Rising
Major Depression Study
An Epidemic of Teen Depression
The Link Between Depression and Other Health Conditions
What Is Major Depression?
What Causes Teen Depression?
Treating Teen Depression with a Holistic Approach
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Content: Parents try to shield them from experiencing failure and disappointment. Therefore, teens often have fewer chances to build resilience. Thus, they don’t learn how to cope with challenges. The adolescent brain is still growing. Hence, teens have an immature prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that controls self-regulation. Thus, they have a limited ability to exert control over their impulses. Consequently, this leads to teenage risk behaviors, such as substance abuse and unsafe sexual choices. Today’s adolescents spend so much time on screens that they don’t get outside enough. Hence, they suffer from nature deficit disorder, a phrase coined by Richard Louv in his 2005 book Last Child in the Woods. Because teens and children are spending less time outdoors, they experience a wide range of behavioral and mental health problems.