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15 - Promoting Adolescent Mental Health

A Transculturally Informed Approach to Engaging Developmental Neuropsychology in the Support of Prevention and Intervention

from Part III - Community Psychology in Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2021

By
Scott J. Hunter
Edited by
Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers
Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers
Affiliation:
Long Island University, New York
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Summary

This chapter addresses how mental health needs and challenges experienced during adolescence can be understood within a framework of clinical neuroscience and its implications regarding development and risk. Through a discussion of current findings regarding adolescent brain development and its organization of the skills required for managing the increased demands for problem-solving and self-reliance that come with adulthood, a biopsychosocial consideration is presented to support how pediatric neuropsychological consultation can facilitate more effective guidance regarding developmental demands and how they can be supported within the family and community. Utilizing the author’s experience consulting in China as a model for critically considering how current assessment practices play out cross-culturally, a model for a more informed, multidisciplinary, and collaborative approach to neuropsychological consultation is proposed that seeks to foster greater attention to the intersectional and contextual demands adolescent development presents.

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Adolescencebrain developmentcognitionbehaviorindependenceresiliencetraumacross-cultural neuropsychology
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The Cambridge Handbook of Community Psychology
Interdisciplinary and Contextual Perspectives
 , pp. 310 - 330
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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