Lisa Damour
Clinical Psychologist; Senior Advisor, Schubert Center for Child Studies, Case Western Reserve University
Lisa Damour is a clinical psychologist with a focus on child development. She is a senior advisor to the Schubert Center for Child Studies at Case Western Reserve University and executive director of Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls. Damour also works in collaboration with UNICEF. The author of Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood and Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls, her latest book is The Emotional Lives of Teenagers. Co-host of the “Ask Lisa” podcast, Damour writes about teenagers for The New York Times and is a contributor to CBS News. Recognized as a thought leader by the American Psychological Association, she speaks to schools and organizations internationally.
Highlights
Big IdeaDepression in teenagers often takes the form of very chronic irritability. It’s like living with a porcupine.Lisa Damour
Previously
Over the past decade, levels of anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide have increased dramatically, but the causes are more nuanced than the headlines suggest. This sessi...
Renowned psychologists Lisa Damour, author of The Emotional Lives of Teenagers, and Laurence Steinberg, author of You and Your Adult Child, delve into the complex landscapes o...
There’s a mental health crisis plaguing America’s youth. The last decade saw major increases in adolescents who reported having a depressive episode, and “serious loneliness”...
They’re up, they’re down, they’re up again — at least that’s what it looks like from the outside. But maybe the myths we perpetuate about the adolescent emotional roller coast...