Reviewing Mental Health in Adolescence through an Anthropological Approach
| Vol-3 | Issue-12 | December 2018 | Published Online: 10 December 2018 PDF | ||
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| Urfat Anjem Mir 1; Samridhi Pahalwan 2 | ||
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1Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, Delhi-110006 INDIA 2Research Assistant, ICSSR funded MRP, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, Delhi-110006 INDIA |
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| Abstract | ||
This paper explores mental health of adolescents by reviewing various studies. It aims to bring under discussion the findings of existing literature on adolescent mental health and identify the various conceptual and methodological limitations of these studies. Furthermore, it also highlights the need for a culture-centric, anthropological approach to studying mental health. Overall, there is a need to apply a holistic approach to understanding adolescents' social and cultural dimensions of mental health. |
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| Keywords | ||
| Mental Health, Adolescence, Anthropological Approach, culture-centric | ||
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