Mental health is a cornerstone of young peoples’ well-being and increasingly a topic of concern. The foundation of mental health is largely laid in adolescence, and more than half of adult mental health disorders have their onset before the age of 14 . Mental health problems are becoming a leading cause of disease burden amongst adolescents globally, affecting their achievement of developmental tasks, socially, personally and academically. Poor adolescent mental health has been linked with poor long-term adult health morbidity and mortality. Optimal mental health requires a positive sense of wellbeing in addition to the absence of clinically significant, active mental illness. Monitoring adolescent mental health is key for understanding whether efforts to improve young people’s mental health at a national and international level are successful. The last decades have seen great changes in young peoples’ lives, including technological advancement and the COVID pandemic. In examining the pathways to adolescent mental health, the proposed research topic will contribute to a better understanding on how this ongoing crisis has affected adolescents.
The primary goal of this Research Topic is to bring together a collection of the most recent studies from different parts of the world on adolescent mental health. These studies can focus either on adolescent mental health problems, on positive mental wellbeing or on both (e.g., using a dual-continua approach). Contributions focusing on the following themes pertaining to mental health among adolescents are welcome: conceptualization of adolescent mental health; within-individual predictors of adolescent mental health; cross-national differences in adolescent mental health; drivers of change over time in adolescent mental health; young people experience and perspectives on what matters for their mental health.
We are interested in various types of manuscripts including original research (including quantitative, qualitative or mixed-methods methodologies), policy articles, brief reports, systematic reviews or meta-analyses.
Mental health is a cornerstone of young peoples’ well-being and increasingly a topic of concern. The foundation of mental health is largely laid in adolescence, and more than half of adult mental health disorders have their onset before the age of 14 . Mental health problems are becoming a leading cause of disease burden amongst adolescents globally, affecting their achievement of developmental tasks, socially, personally and academically. Poor adolescent mental health has been linked with poor long-term adult health morbidity and mortality. Optimal mental health requires a positive sense of wellbeing in addition to the absence of clinically significant, active mental illness. Monitoring adolescent mental health is key for understanding whether efforts to improve young people’s mental health at a national and international level are successful. The last decades have seen great changes in young peoples’ lives, including technological advancement and the COVID pandemic. In examining the pathways to adolescent mental health, the proposed research topic will contribute to a better understanding on how this ongoing crisis has affected adolescents.
The primary goal of this Research Topic is to bring together a collection of the most recent studies from different parts of the world on adolescent mental health. These studies can focus either on adolescent mental health problems, on positive mental wellbeing or on both (e.g., using a dual-continua approach). Contributions focusing on the following themes pertaining to mental health among adolescents are welcome: conceptualization of adolescent mental health; within-individual predictors of adolescent mental health; cross-national differences in adolescent mental health; drivers of change over time in adolescent mental health; young people experience and perspectives on what matters for their mental health.
We are interested in various types of manuscripts including original research (including quantitative, qualitative or mixed-methods methodologies), policy articles, brief reports, systematic reviews or meta-analyses.
