Teaching Teenagers to Cope With Social Stress

Almost four million American teenagers have just started their freshman year of high school. Can they learn better ways to deal with all that stress and insecurity?

New research suggests they can. Though academic and social pressurescontinue to pile on in high school, teenagers can be taught effective coping skills to skirt the pitfalls of anxiety and depression.

by Jan Hoffman, read more in www.nytimes.com