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Strengthening the Measurement of Adolescents' Mental Health at the Population Level
Journal of Adolescent HealthVol. 72Issue 1SupplementS1–S2Published online: November 8, 2022- Caroline W. Kabiru
- Robert Wm. Blum
Cited in Scopus: 1We have a notion that adolescence is a healthy time of life. Many parents wonder what is so stressful for young people who do not have the kinds of financial burdens and family worries that adults experience. Consequently, it is not uncommon for adults to dismiss the emotional concerns of their adolescent children. However, adolescence is a time of exceptionally rapid change both physically and neurodevelopmentally. As a time of numerous first experiences and exposures, the world around the adolescents changes in ways that they never experienced in childhood. - EditorialOpen Access
The Next Phase of the Global Early Adolescent Study: Measuring How Gender Norms and Gender Inequality Intensify and Influence Health
Journal of Adolescent HealthVol. 69Issue 1SupplementS1–S2Published in issue: July, 2021- Elizabeth Saewyc
Cited in Scopus: 1In 2017, this journal published the first supplement of research from the Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS), which provided a rich examination of how gender is experienced during early adolescence (ages 10–14) in low-income urban areas in 15 different countries across the world [1]. At the time, the theoretical and empirical literature on gender socialization and gender norms in adolescence had been developed primarily in high-income countries in the global North, among relatively affluent young adolescents.
