Young People’s Mental Health

Wyn, Johanna

doi:10.1007/s43151-022-00079-3

Cited by 8 publications

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“…An estimated 20% of adolescents struggle with poor mental health [ 1 ], with rates of anxiety, depression, and loneliness being amplified during the pandemic [ 2 , 3 ]. Some researchers argue that a combination of screen addiction and a lack of time outside might be contributing factors to poor mental wellbeing [ 4 ].…”

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‘This Is What the Colour Green Smells Like!’: Urban Forest Bathing Improved Adolescent Nature Connection and Wellbeing

McEwan

Potter²,

Kotera

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Background: Research suggests that an early connection with nature can benefit wellbeing into adulthood. However, there is less research assessing whether adolescents benefit from formal nature connection interventions such as forest bathing (slow mindful nature walks). This research aimed to assess whether an urban nature connection intervention (called ParkBathe) could improve adolescents’ nature connection and wellbeing. Method: In an experimental repeated measures design, 44 adolescents sampled opportunistically from Scouts groups, completed surveys and interviews before and after experiencing an urban nature connection intervention. Results: Paired-samples t-tests between baseline and post-intervention survey scores revealed statistically significant improvements in anxiety (13% reduction); rumination (44% reduction); scepticism (17% reduction); nature connection (25% increase); and social connection (12% increase). The largest effect size was found for nature connection. Interviews revealed that before the session, participants had a mixed understanding and expectations of the intervention. Conclusions: After the session, the participants expressed enjoying the social aspects of being part of a group and being present in the moment by noticing nature. They expressed the effects of this as immediately calming and relaxing. Urban forest bathing improved nature connection and wellbeing in adolescents and could be implemented and/or signposted by schools and youth charities.

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confidence: 99%

‘This Is What the Colour Green Smells Like!’: Urban Forest Bathing Improved Adolescent Nature Connection and Wellbeing

McEwan

Potter²,

Kotera

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…This experience has been widespread for her generation since the Global Financial Crisis of 2009 (Productivity Commission, 2020). Low wages and underemployment have been found to impact young adults' capacity to plan, for instance in terms of relationships and housing, for the future (Cuervo & Chesters, 2019) and have resulted in poor well‐being outcomes (Landstedt et al, 2017; Wyn, 2022). It is interesting, though, that when asked in 2021 if the pandemic affected her life, she replied “it hasn't”—thus, perhaps showing how being in liminal state of employment has been normalised by some young adults.…”

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confidence: 99%

Liminality, COVID‐19 and the long crisis of young adults' employment

Cuervo

Maire

Cook

et al. 2023

Aust J Social Issues

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The COVID‐19 crisis has brought into sharp relief the precarious employment situation of young people, precipitating a raft of academic and public claims of an unprecedented crisis that has disrupted young lives. Our study contributes to research on youth labour and transitions with new longitudinal empirical analysis. Our analysis challenges the “newness” of the precarity highlighted by COVID‐19, focussing on employment. It draws on longitudinal mixed methods data from a research project tracking the transition to adulthood of young Australians. We make use of the concept of liminality to analyse the labour patterns for this group of young adults for the past 5 years. While we acknowledge the impact of COVID‐19 on young people's lives, our analysis reveals a precarisation of labour conditions for a significant proportion of participants that precedes the pandemic crisis. We conclude that the tendency in some youth research and in public discourse, to depict contemporary events as heralding “new” crises for young people, obscures the deeper structural arrangements that continually position the young to take the brunt of social and economic policies.

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“…The arrival of COVID stimulated a heightened interest in mental health around the globe, and particularly with respect to the impact of lockdowns on people's mental health. This COVIDstimulated focus on mental health included studies on the general population [1,2], the elderly [3], vulnerable population sub-groups [4], and young people [5][6][7]. These COVID-stimulated studies have served to not only increase attention on mental health in general, but to also draw attention to the different needs of specific sub-groups in the population.…”

Section: Young People and Mental Healthmentioning

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“…Given that the mental health of young people has received increasing attention in the past decade [7,10], and was described over 15 years ago as a 'global crisis' [11], there have been an increasing number of interventions across the globe targeting youth across a variety of settings, including schools, universities and sporting organisations [12]. However, many of these interventions have been concerned primarily with early detection and help-seeking, and focus on risk factors (e.g., substance use; bullying; social media; etc see [13,14], with fewer focussing on enhancing positive mental health [15].…”

Section: Young People and Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Young People’s responses to the Population Wide Act-Belong-Commit Mental Health Promotion Campaign: Implications for Youth Mental Health Interventions

Donovan,

Drane,

Miller

et al. 2024

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This paper reports data from three sources showing young people’s positive responses to the population-wide Act-Belong-Commit mental health promotion campaign: (i) impact on 14-25 year old participants in a peer-educator workshop program; (ii) impact on 11-14 year old student participants in an adaptation of the campaign in secondary schools (the ‘Mentally Healthy Schools Framework’); and (iii) impact of the population wide media-based campaign on 18-24 and 25-34 year olds in the general population (versus those 35+ years). Overall, these findings support the conclusion that mental health promotion interventions can be based on underlying constructs relevant across the lifespan and then tailored for specific ages and settings rather than requiring the development of separate, distinct programs based on different constructs for younger age groups.

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Young People’s Mental Health

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

‘This Is What the Colour Green Smells Like!’: Urban Forest Bathing Improved Adolescent Nature Connection and Wellbeing

‘This Is What the Colour Green Smells Like!’: Urban Forest Bathing Improved Adolescent Nature Connection and Wellbeing

Liminality, COVID‐19 and the long crisis of young adults' employment

Young People’s responses to the Population Wide Act-Belong-Commit Mental Health Promotion Campaign: Implications for Youth Mental Health Interventions

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