He has also produced and edited the multimedia professional toolkit, Reaching Teens: Strength - based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and
Support Healthy Adolescent Development.
Because issues like defiance, depression, substance abuse, self - harm and mental disorders can
disrupt healthy adolescent development, it is important for teens to get help before they make decisions that could impact them for a lifetime.
Dr. Blum's previous experience includes: Supervising Psychologist at the Institute for Girls» Development in Pasadena; Supervising Psychologist for Children's Hospital - Los Angeles; Staff Researcher at the UCLA Center for Adolescent Health Promotion; and Director of Education for the HiTOPS Teen Health Center in Princeton, NJ, where she designed educational programs for teens, parents, and teachers
on healthy adolescent development.
Particular areas of focus
for healthy adolescent development, using an ecological model to support research, programs and service provision, includes cultural well - being and development, enabling environments which support aspirations, the provision of basic needs, support around issues of justice, key health areas, sexual health and parenting supports.
Reaching teens: strength - based communication strategies to build resilience and support
healthy adolescent development.
Reaching Teens: Strength - based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support
Healthy Adolescent Development (Copyright © 2014 American Academy of Pediatrics)
Because parents often modify their levels of control during the adolescent developmental period to allow for
healthy adolescent development (Baumrind, 1991c), attention to factors that impact a parent's ability to appropriately adjust his / her parenting have important implications for adolescent adjustment.
Adoptive Family Relationships and
Healthy Adolescent Development: A Risk and Resilience Analysis.