More policymakers and practitioners should encourage exploration and discovery during youth, to prevent adolescents from reaching crisis.
It is not only policymakers and practitioners who should give more attention to the experiences and conditions that help adolescents to thrive — although our call is directed mainly towards them.
Much of the existing research on youth development and mental health is based on adolescents from high-income, predominantly Western nations. Moreover, researchers often study only those countries’ majority populations. To determine which specific mental-health needs could be supported worldwide, more neuroscientists, psychologists and psychiatrists need to study adolescents in the global south and in minority groups, and attend to the local circumstances of each country and community.
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