scholarly journals Ways to Mind Your Mental Health in Challenging Times: Tips for Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Celine Larkin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Youth And Young Adults

The isolation that youth and young adults have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted their mental health. This tip sheet offers some ideas and supports that youth and young adults can use to connect with others and help them feel better.

scholarly journals Scoping review of stepped care interventions for mental health and substance use service delivery to youth and young adults

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mai Berger ◽  
Saranee Fernando ◽  
AnnMarie Churchill ◽  
Peter Cornish ◽  
Joanna Henderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Stepped Care ◽  
Youth And Young Adults

scholarly journals AFFIRM Online: Utilising an Affirmative Cognitive–Behavioural Digital Intervention to Improve Mental Health, Access, and Engagement among LGBTQA+ Youth and Young Adults

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1541
Author(s):  
Shelley L. Craig ◽  
Vivian W. Y. Leung ◽  
Rachael Pascoe ◽  
Nelson Pang ◽  
Gio Iacono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Group Intervention ◽  
Health Access ◽  
Digital Interventions ◽  
Cognitive Behavioural ◽  
Youth And Young Adults ◽  
Mental Health Interventions ◽  
And Gender

Digital mental health interventions may enable access to care for LGBTQA+ youth and young adults that face significant threats to their wellbeing. This study describes the preliminary efficacy of AFFIRM Online, an eight-session manualised affirmative cognitive behavioural group intervention delivered synchronously. Participants (Mage = 21.17; SD = 4.52) had a range of sexual (e.g., queer, lesbian, pansexual) and gender (e.g., non-binary, transgender, cisgender woman) identities. Compared to a waitlist control (n = 50), AFFIRM Online participants (n = 46) experienced significantly reduced depression (b = −5.30, p = 0.005, d = 0.60) and improved appraisal of stress as a challenge (b = 0.51, p = 0.005, d = 0.60) and having the resources to meet those challenges (b = 0.27, p = 0.059, d = 0.39) as well active coping (b = 0.36, p = 0.012, d = 0.54), emotional support (b = 0.38, p = 0.017, d = 0.51), instrumental support (b = 0.58, p < 0.001, d = 0.77), positive framing (b = 0.34, p = 0.046, d = 0.42), and planning (b = 0.41, p = 0.024, d = 0.49). Participants reported high acceptability. This study highlights the potential of digital interventions to impact LGBTQA+ youth mental health and explores the feasibility of digital mental health to support access and engagement of youth with a range of identities and needs (e.g., pandemic, lack of transportation, rural locations). Findings have implications for the design and delivery of digital interventions for marginalised youth and young adults.

scholarly journals Building a Community of Practice to Support Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions [English and Spanish versions]

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Transition Age Youth ◽  
Transition Age ◽  
Mental Health Conditions ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Youth And Young Adults ◽  
Serious Mental Health Conditions

A Community of Practice brings together groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis. The Transitions Research and Training Center assisted in the development of a Community of Practice on supporting Transition Age Youth and Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions. The Northeast Massachusetts Community of Practice was composed of local stakeholders seeking to enhance services for this group.

scholarly journals Psychological Resilience, Mental Health, and Inhibitory Control Among Youth and Young Adults Under Stress

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anat Afek ◽  
Rina Ben-Avraham ◽  
Alexander Davidov ◽  
Noa Berezin Cohen ◽  
Ariel Ben Yehuda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Youth And Young Adults

Psychological resilience allows one to cope successfully with adversities occurring during stressful periods, which may otherwise trigger mental illness. Recent models suggest that inhibitory control (IC), the executive control function which supports our goal-directed behavior and regulates our emotional response, may underlie resilience. However, the ways in which this is manifested during stressful situations in real life is still unclear. Here, we examined the relationship between IC, psychological resilience, psychological distress, and anxiety among 138 female and male participants in a stressful situation: during their initial combat training in the military. Using a mobile app, we assessed IC using emotional and non-emotional variations of the Go/No-Go task. Psychological resilience, psychological distress, and anxiety were assessed using mobile versions of self-report questionnaires. We found that psychological resilience is significantly correlated with non-emotional IC (r = 0.24, p &lt; 0.005), but not with emotional IC; whereas, psychological distress and anxiety are correlated with emotional IC (r = −0.253, p &lt; 0.005 and r = −0.224, p &lt; 0.01, for psychological distress and anxiety, respectively), but not with non-emotional IC. A regression model predicting emotional IC confirmed non-emotional IC and distress as unique contributors to the variance, but not psychological distress. In addition, associations between psychological distress and emotional IC were found only for female participants. Collectively, the results clarify the link between IC, resilience, and mental health in real-life stressful situations, showing separate mechanisms of IC involved in resilience on the one hand, and mental health on the other hand. These results have implications for building mobile resilience interventions for youth and young adults facing stressful situations.

Mental Health and Medical Cannabis Use among Youth and Young Adults in Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 582-589
Author(s):  
Elle Wadsworth ◽  
Cesar Leos-Toro ◽  
David Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Medical Cannabis ◽  
Youth And Young Adults
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