Todays Youth and Mental Health Hope, Power, and Resilience [Hardcover]

This book focuses on the social and intersectional determinants of mental health among youth. The innovative and cutting edge text arises out of multidisciplinary fields of academic, researchers, policy makers, practitioners, artists, and youth.? Contributions from Canada, Germany, Portugal, South Korea, Burkina Faso, Afghanistan, and Jamaica addresses the complexities and the opportunities for youth across contexts. Each chapter entails an introduction to the topic, literature review and research findings, discussion, and implications in regard to research, policy, and practice. A unique aspect of the book is the inclusion of a critical response to each chapters content from diverse stakeholders (such as policy makers, front line workers, practitioners, community activists, artists and youth).The book is a critical and current contribution to exploring youth mental health and, specifically, the ways in which youth learn, live, and resist in a world around them.? Topics examined include youth social engagement, civic integration, and political participation at multiple local, regional, and transnational levels.PartI: Contexts of Youths Lives.- 1.Immigrant and Refugee Youth Mental Health in Canada:A Scoping Review of Empirical Literature.- 2.Precarious Status: Youth Mental Health at the Intersections of Identity and Migration.- 3.Dancing Bodies, Flying Souls: The Mental Health Impacts of Pedophilia Inflicted on Afghan Boys in Afghanistan.- 4.Youth Experiences of Cultural Identity and Migration: A Systems Perspective.- 5.Redefining Cyber Sexual Violence Against Emerging Young Women: Towards Conceptual Clarity.- Part II:Mental Health.- 6.Why am I still here? The Impact of Survivor Guilt on the Mental Health and Settlement Process of Refugee Youth.- 7.The Effects of Intersectional Stigma and Discrimination on the Mental Well-Being of Black, LBQ, Female Youth 1825 Years Old.- 8.Exploring Youth Mental Health and Addictions at the Intersection of Food Insecurity and Genl„