Recently, my twenty-something daughters came home for Mother’s Day to cook up a homemade brunch for me. Afterwards, the conversation turned serious with my 25-year old. She planned to take part in a ...

Students walk on campus. Most BYU students are between ages 18-29, an age group developmental psychologists describe as emerging adulthood. (Jaren Wilkey/BYU Photo) Research shows the ages between ...

For many emerging adults, graduating high school and/or starting college is the first time in life in which seemingly all aspects of life can change. Moving out of the home, finding new friends, ...

When does one become an adult? For the past few decades, this question has increasingly come up for debate amongst young people and their families, popular news media, and the social institutions that ...

A panicked mom called begging for an urgent psychiatric evaluation for her 19-year-old daughter. Would this be a true mental health crisis or, like so many others, just a bumpy course through the ...