Social Determinants and Adolescents’ Mental Health: First, Focus on Education and Graduation

• By: Evelyn R. Frankford, MSW Frankford Consulting
• January 1st, 2021
• adolescents, dropout, education, mental health, prison, school, social determinants of health, transition, winter 2021 issue, young adults
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Over recent decades, late adolescence and young adulthood, generally the years 16 or 18 through 25, have emerged as a distinct developmental period in the human life span. In the mental health field, the term Transition Age Youth and Young Adults – TAYYA – has come to describe young people of...