Essential Resources

Opinion | Giving kids some autonomy has surprising results – The New York Times.
(n.d.). https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/opinion/children-choices-goal-setting.html

Anderson, J., & Winthrop, R. (2025).
The disengaged teen: Helping kids learn better, feel better, and live better.
Books on Tape.

Laporte, N., Soenens, B., Brenning, K., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2021).
Adolescents as active managers of their own psychological needs: The role of Psychological Need Crafting in adolescents’ mental health.
Journal of Adolescence, 88(1), 67–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.02.004

Shogren, K. A., & Raley, S. K. (2022).
Supporting self-determination in adolescence.
Self-Determination and Causal Agency Theory, 123–133. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04260-7_11

Van Petegem, S., Flamant, N., Soenens, B., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2023).
Autonomy, self-determination, and the development of coping in adolescence.
The Cambridge Handbook of the Development of Coping, 510–537. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108917230.027