Improving teen mental health with Lisa Damour

Worklife with Adam Grant

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Adolescence can be an emotionally volatile time, and in the age of social media, concerns about teenage mental health are more pressing than ever — for teens and parents alike. Dr. Lisa Damour is a clinical psychologist who specializes in teenagers and their mental health, consulting on the Pixar film Inside Out 2 and authoring the New York Times bestselling books Untangled, Under Pressure and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers. Lisa and Adam discuss the real problems facing teenagers today and unpack misconceptions about mental health, how many friends and how much sleep teens really need and why it truly takes a village to raise a teenager.

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0:00.0	for me adolescence feels like when my life went from being in black and white to being in color
0:05.3	and so i think that's part of why i like caring for teenagers and working with them for me it is
0:11.8	such a rich and full and pivotal time of life and and one that i really enjoyed
0:17.2	hey everyone it's Adam Grant.
0:22.4	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Tick with the
0:26.7	TED Audio Collective.
0:27.9	I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
0:32.1	people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
0:38.2	My guest today is clinical psychologist Dr. Lisa DeMore.
0:42.0	She's my favorite expert on teenagers,
0:44.3	from understanding their mental health to figuring out how to parent them,
0:47.8	which of course includes sage advice on emotion regulation, friend drama, sleep, and yep, social media.
0:54.7	It's not at all or nothing, like all of parenting.
0:58.4	It is a gradual, going to give you a little room, see how you handle it.
1:03.6	Lisa consulted on the Pixar film Inside Out 2.
1:06.8	She's the author of the New York Times bestselling books, Untangled, Under Pressure, and the Emotional Lives of Teenagers.
1:13.4	And she co-hosts the podcast Ask Lisa.
1:16.0	So today I'm bringing her on this podcast to chat all about the colorful world of adolescence and how we can make it better.
1:26.5	Hey, Lisa.
1:31.5	I'm hoping that you're going to untangle all of us in this conversation.
1:32.8	I'll do my darn dust.
1:36.9	Good. Well, Lisa, welcome to rethinking.
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