Adolescent and Young Adult Health through a Developmental Lens
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 3779
Special Issue Editors
2. NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University Hospital NHS Trust, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
3. Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Interests: developmentally appropriate health care for young people including health transitions; vocational readiness; peer support in addition to work centred on chronic musculoskeletal pain during adolescence and young adulthood.
Interests: adolescent health; developmentally appropriate healthcare for young people; health transitions; young people with long-term conditions; psychosocial aspects of health/illness and healthcare behaviours; implementation science; complex interventions; health services research
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In 1916 the first dedicated adolescent clinic was established in Stanford, USA. Over a hundred years later, the pros and cons of dedicated services for adolescents and young adults (10–24 year olds) are still debated, unmet training needs are still reported, and young people moving from paediatric to adult-centred care continue to experience the stark differences in cultures of care and the third phase of transitional care that takes place in the third decade of life (i.e., the least researched). This is despite increasing evidence that the adolescent brain continues to develop well into the mid-twenties and the concept of emerging adulthood is increasingly recognised. Adolescent and young adult health is now very much on the global health agenda and recognised as a key life stage worth investing in, in view of the potential to influence future adult health, including future parents of future children. The aim of this Special Issue is to advocate for a greater use of adolescent and young adult development—biological, psychological, cognitive, social, vocational—as a framework and lens through which to look at the lives of all young people, irrespective of their health status. We are therefore looking for papers which specifically address the importance and/or demonstrate the use of such a framework in research involving adolescents and young adults.
Dr. Janet McDonagh
Dr. Albert Farre
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adolescent development
- adolescence
- young adulthood
- developmentally appropriate health care
- youth-friendly health care
- transitional care
- young people
- parenting of adolescents
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