Mitigating mental health and wellbeing challenges among young populations: A scan of youth-led initiatives across Canada to inform psychosocial program development

Article Psychiatry

Youth and family members make meaningful contributions to a randomized-controlled trial: YouthCan IMPACT

Joanna Henderson et al.

Summary: Youth and family members play substantial roles in complex research projects, including randomized-controlled trials, improving project design, study implementation, associated interventions, and knowledge translation.

EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHIATRY (2022)

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Review Social Work

Youth participation in policy-making processes in the United Kingdom: a scoping review of the literature

T. Macauley et al.

Summary: This scoping review investigates the extent and methods of young people's involvement in health policy-making processes in the United Kingdom (UK). The findings highlight various opportunities for successful policymaking with youth, considering factors such as the type of involvement, role of facilitators, and the integration of young people at different stages of the process.

JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PRACTICE (2022)

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Article Health Policy & Services

Implications of Canadian youth views for measuring youth mental health from a socio-economic perspective

Shari Laliberte et al.

Summary: This study utilized a social praxis process with 30 diverse young people from a Canadian metropolitan area to explore the inter-relationship between their MH and socio-economic environments, revealing eight inter-related MH needs within the Canadian context. The research highlights the significance of young people's access to resources in enabling their MH needs and the impact of materialistic values and social norms on their mental health. There is a call for iterative indicator frameworks in measuring youth MH within MHP practice to address these complex socio-economic processes.

HEALTH PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL (2021)

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Article Geriatrics & Gerontology

Exacerbating Inequalities: Social Networks, Racial/Ethnic Disparities, and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

Gertrude R. Gauthier et al.

Summary: This commentary discusses the disruption of social networks for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on racial/ethnic disparities. The authors highlight the importance of strong social networks for physical and mental health outcomes, and offer insights for examining the impact of COVID-19 on marginalized groups.

JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (2021)

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Article Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Decolonizing Methodologies in Qualitative Research: Creating Spaces for Transformative Praxis

Vivetha Thambinathan et al.

Summary: This paper proposes four practices that can be used by qualitative researchers, including exercising critical reflexivity, reciprocity, embracing Other ways of knowing, and embodying transformative praxis. Embracing decolonizing approaches is seen as a moral imperative when working with populations oppressed by colonial legacies in the current historical trajectory.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS (2021)

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