Spotlight Exclusive Interview: Richard Bonnie on Fulfilling the Promise of Adolescence

Recent behavioral science research has found that adolescence, like early childhood, is a crucial period of development. A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report looks at what this new understanding means for society and makes recommendations for how the education, health, justice and child welfare systems can better meet the needs of youth ages 10-25:
nap.edu/adolescence

At the release event in August 2019, Spotlight spoke with report authors and stakeholders about how structural inequalities can affect adolescents’ development and opportunity – and what policy can do to help. Richard Bonnie is chair of NASEM’s Committee on the Neurobiological and Socio-behavioral Science of Adolescent Development and Its Applications. At the University of Virginia, he is also Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law, professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences, professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy.

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