The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for all Youth(Chapter: Adolescence and Inequity)

The Commercialization of Children's Mental Health in the Era of Globalization

Growing up is hard

Falling Behind and Feeling Bad: Unmet Expectations and Mental Health during the Transition to Adulthood

#Educators don't do enough

#Change Teenage Expectations

#Reduce adolescent inequity

#Poverty impacts adolescent outcomes

#Racial inequity

#teenage_mortality

#Residential Programs do not help teens

#Teenage abuse

#used by coorporations

#Do any sources support this industry?

#Teen residential programs only hurt

#Coorporations only add to the problem

#Troubled teens are shamed

#Being different doesn't equal bad

#Corporations do not help

the level of the general risks falling into unhelpful stereotypes."

#Mental illness doesn't have one solution

#Different cultures, different lives

#Selfishness in society

so usually involve removal of the child from dangerous/abusive situations. Little legislative attention has been given to strengthening social cohesion and reduce

inequality as an important avenue to improve child pr

Our lack of engagement with alternative perspectives from non- Western traditions reflect a rather hidden form of institutionalized racism (or more accurately institutionalized cultural hegemony) that has infected Western academic and political endeavours for several centuries. Not only does this present real danger to the traditions and knowledge bases in existence in the non-Western world, but it

means that populations of the Western world are being denied the opportunity to benefit from the positive effects that embracing non-Western knowledge, values,

practices may bring."

#Look to the east

#Children don't need all individualism

#Mental Health has solutions in the east

#Different cultures, different solutions

#This is adolescence

#importance of adolescense

In contrast, boys whose puberty begins late (pubertas tarda) have a higher risk of mental disorders (e15), as they can develop feelings of inadequacy and suffer from a lack of appreciation by their peers."

#difference in gender

#Social stresses

#importance of adolescnets

#Adolescents aren't helped enough

#Mental disorders need to be addressed

in the models, own expectations are no longer significant predictors of psychological distress, indicating the primacy of reflected appraisals. Falling behind others’ expectations consistently matters for psychological distress, as perceptions of societal, peer, and parental expectations are all associated with higher levels of depression."

#Societal expectations aren't helping

#Depression is from society

#Better expectations must be set

affect life course trajectories by reducing educational achievement, increasing substance abuse and violence, and harming reproductive and sexual health (Patel et al. 2007). For those young adults who feel overwhelmed by unattainable expectations, information about demographic shifts could reduce distress. For example, it could be useful to emphasize to distressed young adults that the increasing need for higher education coupled with crippling student loan debt affects the ability of many young people to leave home, achieve financial independence, and begin to form their own families, thus re-centering their perceptions of a “normal” progression to adulthood."

#Better transition to adulthood

#Adults help teens

#More research to better future

but the cultural narrative lags behind. In this case, while our cultural understanding of what it means to be an adult remains relatively fixed, the experiences of many young adults today do not match those markers."

#Expectations are in the past

#Adapt expectations to the modern day

#Cultural lag