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.

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.