Story: Teenagers and youth

More links and websites

• Youth’12 Overview: The health and wellbeing of New Zealand secondary school students in 2012

  Results of a national survey in 2012 of a sample of New Zealand secondary school students which focused on their health and well-being.

• Introduction: teenagers

  New Scientist’s 2006 summary of research on the teenage brain.

• Ministry of Youth Development

  The government department responsible for youth.

• Youthline

  Youthline provides counselling for young people.

More suggestions and sources

• The adolescent in New Zealand: the 1970 lectures delivered to the Association for the Study of Childhood, Wellington, New Zealand. Wellington: New Zealand University Press: Price Milburn, 1971.

• Bainbridge, David. Teenagers: a natural history. Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2009.

• Brickell, Chris. Teenagers: The rise of youth culture in New Zealand. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2017.

• Mourant, Margaret. Understanding teenagers: a book for New Zealand parents and other adults. Auckland: Collins New Zealand, 1991.

• Stewart, Robert, ed. Adolescence in New Zealand: a book of readings. Auckland: Heinemann Educational, 1976.

• Yska, Redmer. All shook up: the flash bodgie and the rise of the New Zealand teenager in the fifties. Auckland: Penguin, 1993.