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The Adolescent Mental Health Initiative is a specific programme of research on time trends in adolescent mental health, set up by The Nuffield Foundation in 2005. The Initiative focuses on various aspects of social change and adolescent experiences in order to reveal some of the changes in adolescents’ lives today. Topics include how adolescents use their time; patterns of drug and alcohol use; interactions with parents and experiences of stress. There will be a particular focus on international comparisons and on disadvantaged groups of young people and the aim will be to contribute to ongoing policy and practice debates in ways that can improve outcomes for young people. We are particularly interested in drawing out the cross-cutting themes that arise when one takes a holistic look at adolescence.

The Initiative brings together the Foundation’s long-standing interests in young people, mental health and educational transitions and will run until early 2009. The funded activities included a series of commissioned reviews; seminars and workshops to bring together researchers, policy makers and practitioners in strategic discussions and also the publication of an edited volume, drawing together the work and distribution of targeted briefing papers on particular topics.

Last Updated Wed, 12 March 2008