A critique of childrens mental health research

Yvonne Vissing

Chapter 8 in Research Handbook on Mental Health Policy, 2022, pp 112-133 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Mental health research, like most fields of research, has focused primarily on data about mental health of people ages 18 and younger that has been collected using adultified methodologies. While understandable, this has created a bias in which mental health conditions and experiences from a young person's perspective have been muted. In this chapter, ethical, conceptual, and methodological challenges of conducting research on children's mental health are explored. The trend in the child and youth studies has been to move away from research on or about children to research with or for children. This change is not merely linguistic Рit repositions children to be subjects, rather than objects of research, and active participants in the research process. The goal of youth participation in research is to yield more accurate data on mental health of young people from their own experiences and perspectives in hopes of improving the mental health crisis that has increased in recent years.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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