Resources

Steinberg L. (2008). A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Adolescent Risk-Taking. Developmental review : DR, 28(1), 78–106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2007.08.002

Romer, Daniel. (2010) “Adolescent Risk Taking, Impulsivity, and Brain Development: Implications for Prevention.” Developmental Psychobiology, doi:10.1002/dev.20442.

Goldstein, Rita Z., and Nora D. Volkow. (2002) “Drug Addiction and Its Underlying Neurobiological Basis: Neuroimaging Evidence for the Involvement of the Frontal Cortex.” American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 159, no. 10, pp. 1642–1652., doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.159.10.1642.

Bechara, Antoine. (2005) “Decision Making, Impulse Control and Loss of Willpower to Resist Drugs: a Neurocognitive Perspective.” Nature Neuroscience, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 1458–1463., doi:10.1038/nn1584

Mischel, Walter. (2019) The Marshmallow Test. Hachette USA.

The BrainWise Program, a non-profit organization, that teaches children, youth, and at-risk adults essential emotional, social, and cognitive skills through an innovative structured approach called the “10 Wise Ways.”

Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences where the original Marshmallow study was and is still currently conducted.

The Cultivating Emotional Balance training was sparked during a meeting between behavioral scientists, a neuroscientist, a monk, a philosopher, and the Dalai Lama in 2000, as a new approach to understanding our emotional lives.

RULER is an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning (SEL) developed at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.