Keyword: youth

Growing Up Without Rules with Barbara Jessen March 27, 2007

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Barbara Jessen, Brian Jefferson, Stephanie D'Ambra

Rules are love, argues Armand DiMele in this conversation with Barbara Jessen, executive director of a group home for at-risk teenage girls in Indiana. Together with Stephanie D’Ambra, LCSW, they examine what chaotic childhoods cost kids, how brain development shapes decision-making, and why structure feels foreign to children who never had it.

Youth Isolation and the Hikikomori Phenomenon January 17, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele

A million Japanese youth have locked themselves in their bedrooms for years. Armand DiMele uses the hikikomori phenomenon as a lens for examining how overprotective parenting, competitive pressure, and cultural apathy are suppressing the natural rebelliousness of adolescence, with his assistant Stephanie Alomba joining the discussion.