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Young people need experiences that boost their mental health

More policymakers and practitioners should encourage exploration and discovery during youth, to prevent adolescents from reaching crisis.
  1. Andrew J. Fuligni

    1. Andrew J. Fuligni is co-executive director at the UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent, Los Angeles, California, USA, and professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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  2. Adriana Galván

    1. Adriana Galván is co-executive director at the UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent, Los Angeles, California, USA, and professor of psychology and of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, at the University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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As co-directors of the UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent at the University of California, Los Angeles, we are often contacted by concerned community members and reporters searching for an explanation for troubling increases in mental-health problems among adolescents. (Our centre disseminates the science of adolescent development to policymakers and practitioners, to inform policies and programmes for those aged between 10 and 25.)

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Nature 610, 253-256 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03172-y

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