scholarly journals A life course perspective on mental health problems, employment, and work outcomes

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 316-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Veldman ◽  
Sijmen A Reijneveld ◽  
Frank C Verhulst ◽  
Josue Almansa Ortiz ◽  
Ute Bültmann
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Work Outcomes

scholarly journals Investigating young adults’ mental health and early working life trajectories from a life course perspective: the role of transitions

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ute Bültmann ◽  
Iris Arends ◽  
Karin Veldman ◽  
Christopher B. McLeod ◽  
Sander K.R. van Zon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Life Trajectories

BackgroundMany young adults leave the labour market because of mental health problems or never really enter it, through early moves onto disability benefits. Across many countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, between 30% and 50% of all new disability benefit claims are due to mental health problems; among young adults this moves up to 50%–80%.OutlineWe propose a research agenda focused on transitions in building young adults’ mental health and early working life trajectories, considering varying views for subgroups of a society. First, we briefly review five transition characteristics, then we elaborate a research agenda with specific research questions.Research agendaOur research agenda focuses on transitions as processes, in time and place and as sensitive periods, when examining young adults’ mental health and early working life trajectories from a life course perspective. As more and more childhood and adolescent cohorts mature and facilitate research on later life labour market, work and health outcomes, transition research can help guide policy and practice interventions.Future cross-disciplinary researchIn view of the many challenges young adults face when entering the changing world of work and labour markets, future research on transitions in young adults related to their mental health and early working life trajectories will provide ample opportunities for collaborative cross-disciplinary research and stimulate debate on this important challenge.

Understanding the Psychological Impacts of Teenage Pregnancy through a Socio-ecological Framework and Life Course Approach

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen P. Tebb ◽  
Claire D. Brindis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Ecological Framework ◽  
Mistimed Pregnancy

AbstractThe relationship between mental health and teenage pregnancy is complex. Mental health can be both an antecedent and contributing factor to teenage pregnancy and a concurrent factor wherein pregnancy itself can contribute to depression. Expectant and parenting teens (EPT) are faced with the simultaneous challenges of pregnancy and parenting while navigating the developmental tasks of adolescence which increases their risk for mental health problems. In addition, adolescents growing up in stressful community or home situations where their parents experienced depression, further places them and their children at greater risk of repeated patterns over time. However, adverse mental health outcomes are not inevitable. The socio-ecological model combined with a life course perspective provides a framework for understanding the complexity of risk and protective factors at multiple levels that influence knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and other health outcomes later in life and across generations. This approach has important implications for reducing adolescents' risk of an unintended/mistimed pregnancy and improving mental health and other outcomes for EPT. This paper describes the prevalence of mental health problems in EPT and using a socio-ecological framework and life course perspective explains variations in mental health outcome among EPT. Implications for interventions and innovative approaches are also discussed.

scholarly journals ‘A Walk 21/1/35’: a psychiatric-psychoanalytic fragment meets the new walking studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 147447402095625
Author(s):  
Sarah Phelan ◽  
Chris Philo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Analytic Sessions

This paper reconstructs a fragment of psychiatric-psychoanalytical geography, interfacing it with the ‘new walking studies’, centring on a walk conducted in 1935 by a man experiencing mental health problems in Glasgow, Scotland. This man, a patient of the psychiatrist Thomas Ferguson Rodger, had mobility problems that rendered walking difficult – prone to stumbling, staggering, wavering – but with the likelihood of these problems being psychosomatic in origin. Through analytic sessions enacting a kind of ‘make-do’ psychoanalysis, the patient reflected on his mobility problems, as when relating his own walking ‘experiment’. Explanations advanced for his difficulties mixed psychoanalytic tropes with a gathering self-awareness of how fraught childhood experiences, had created the frame for an adult existence continually shying away from wider encounters and challenges beyond the domestic sphere. Central here was forward momentum being lost, whether walking or advancing through a life-course, with material and metaphoric senses of being stalled or stuck – spatially, environmentally – constantly entraining one another. This case study is deployed to illustrate claims about the ‘worlding’ of psychoanalysis, and to offer provocations for how such a psychiatric-psychoanalytic geography fragment might be illuminated by work on the cultural geographies of walking.

Intersecting Mental Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Timilsina
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Health It ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based

Mental Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health are well-studied with accolades of literature on each topic; however, their interrelationships have been under-described. Mental Health problems can be result of concurrent or past Sexual and Reproductive Health ill event and vice versa. This article presents intersection between Mental Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health based on available literature. Intersections between Mental Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health and their impacts can be studied through life course perspective and needs prioritized attention in case of Gender Based Violence and for people living with disability. The article highlights the importance to explore other aspects such as emotions, gender and sexuality associated with Mental Health and to study and understand physiological and psychological context between Mental Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health. It also stresses the need of further research on intersection between Mental Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Recognizing mental health problems in the ageing community

2018 ◽  
pp. 259-264
Author(s):  
Linda Chiu Wa Lam ◽  
Wai Chi Chan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Ageing Population

With an increase in life expectancy worldwide, the ageing population has been expanding in the last few decades. Advanced age is associated with a high prevalence of physical morbidity. Dementia, the commonest type of mental disorder in later life, has been widely recognized as a public health priority. However, it is important to realize that other mental health problems are also common in old age. Depression and anxiety disorders are affecting a significant proportion of older adults, and may be associated with cognitive decline. This chapter will draw on current research related to key mental health problems in old age, and explore their public health significance through exploration of major prospective, large-scale, long-term cohort studies that shed light on the risk and protective factors that may influence the manifestations of mental health problems and associated disorders from a life course perspective.

Public policy and service needs in mental health

2020 ◽  
pp. 1363-1371
Author(s):  
Martin Knapp
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Premature Mortality ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Discrimination In Employment ◽  
Good Policy ◽  
And Control

Mental health problems have a number of complex characteristics: incidence often early in life, but symptoms that can last for decades; considerable distress to individuals and also challenges for their families; social and economic exclusion, including discrimination in employment and other areas; premature mortality, particularly through suicide; and elevated risks of violent or acquisitive crimes. Policies must respond to these challenges to protect rights, pursue efficiency in resource use, and aspire to social justice. The chapter looks at the main drivers of mental health problems and their consequences, which often spread widely across many sectors. The main dimensions of a good policy are discussed: a life-course perspective; commitment to primary prevention; promotion of co-ordinated multi-sector efforts; eradication of stigma and discrimination; involvement of families and communities; and, most importantly, giving individuals with lived experience of mental illness as many opportunities, choice, and control as possible, given their circumstances and health.

Males on the life-course-persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial pathways: Follow-up at age 26 years

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
TERRIE E. MOFFITT ◽  
AVSHALOM CASPI ◽  
HONALEE HARRINGTON ◽  
BARRY J. MILNE
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Substance Dependence ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Psychopathic Personality ◽  
Childhood Onset ◽  
Life Course Persistent

This article reports a comparison on outcomes of 26-year-old males who were defined several years ago in the Dunedin longitudinal study as exhibiting childhood-onset versus adolescent-onset antisocial behavior and who were indistinguishable on delinquent offending in adolescence. Previous studies of these groups in childhood and adolescence showed that childhood-onset delinquents had inadequate parenting, neurocognitive problems, undercontrolled temperament, severe hyperactivity, psychopathic personality traits, and violent behavior. Adolescent-onset delinquents were not distinguished by these features. Here followed to age 26 years, the childhood-onset delinquents were the most elevated on psychopathic personality traits, mental-health problems, substance dependence, numbers of children, financial problems, work problems, and drug-related and violent crime, including violence against women and children. The adolescent-onset delinquents at 26 years were less extreme but elevated on impulsive personality traits, mental-health problems, substance dependence, financial problems, and property offenses. A third group of men who had been aggressive as children but not very delinquent as adolescents emerged as low-level chronic offenders who were anxious, depressed, socially isolated, and had financial and work problems. These findings support the theory of life-course-persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial behavior but also extend it. Findings recommend intervention with all aggressive children and with all delinquent adolescents, to prevent a variety of maladjustments in adult life.

Gendered Pathways Into Co-Offending Among a Sample of Adult Burglary and Robbery Offenders

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (12) ◽  
pp. 1711-1739
Author(s):  
Susan McNeeley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
State Prisons ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Gendered Pathways

This study examines whether gender is related to co-offending. It also tests whether turning points throughout the life course influence co-offending in adulthood and whether these pathways into co-offending are gendered. The study utilizes a sample of 484 burglary and robbery offenses committed by 400 offenders incarcerated in Minnesota state prisons. Neither the presence of co-offenders nor the number of co-offenders varied by gender. However, women were more likely than men to act as accomplices and co-offend with romantic partners or family members. In addition, there was limited evidence that homelessness, abuse and victimization, substance abuse, and mental health problems were related to co-offending, and that these relationships varied by gender.

scholarly journals Gender Identity Milestones, Minority Stress and Mental Health in Three Generational Cohorts of Italian Binary and Nonbinary Transgender People

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (17) ◽  
pp. 9057
Author(s):  
Cristiano Scandurra ◽  
Agostino Carbone ◽  
Roberto Baiocco ◽  
Selene Mezzalira ◽  
Nelson Mauro Maldonato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Minority Stress ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Generational Cohorts ◽  
Negative Expectations

Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people experience high rates of minority stress and associated risk for negative health outcomes. However, during the last years, significant positive socio-cultural changes have happened, and younger cohorts of TGNC individuals are having diverse experiences compared to older cohorts. By integrating the minority stress theory and the life course perspective, this cross-sectional, web-based study aimed to explore in 197 Italian TGNC people aged 18 to 54 years (M = 29.82, SD = 9.64) whether the average ages of gender identity milestones (i.e., first insights about being TGNC, self-labeling as a TGNC person, and coming out), minority stress, and mental health vary among three generational cohorts (i.e., Generation Z, Millennials, and Generation X). Compared with older cohorts, younger participants: (a) were more likely to be in the trans-masculine spectrum; (b) self-labeled as TGNC and came out earlier; (c) had more negative expectations and lower levels of disclosure; and (d) had higher levels of mental health problems. No generational differences related to first insights about being TGNC and distal minority stressors were found. Furthermore, compared with binary individuals, participants with a non-binary identity: (a) reported later ages for the gender identity milestones; (b) had higher negative expectations; and (c) had higher levels of mental health problems. Overall, our findings indicated that changes in the social environments have a limited impact on stigmatization processes and mental health of Italian TGNC people.

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