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Improving teen mental health with Lisa Damour

2025/1/21
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Lisa Damour: 我对青少年心理健康问题的研究始于我个人积极的青春期体验,以及对当前青少年面临挑战的关注。我的研究表明,虽然青少年心理健康危机真实存在,但其原因并非媒体报道中那样简单。疫情前,焦虑和抑郁症在青少年中就已经上升,疫情进一步加剧了这一问题。此外,我们还缺乏足够的专业人员来照顾青少年。 我将心理健康定义为:情绪与情境相符,并能有效管理这些情绪。负面情绪是正常的,甚至是有价值的,它们能帮助我们学习和成长。情绪调节不仅包括表达情绪,也包括认知重评和情绪管理。并非所有情绪都需要表达,有些情绪可以通过重新诠释或转移注意力来应对。 睡眠对青少年的心理健康至关重要,高中生每晚需要9小时睡眠,睡眠不足与心理健康问题密切相关。解决青少年睡眠不足问题,需要从减少课业负担和延迟上学时间入手。延迟上学时间可以改善青少年的睡眠和心理健康状况,但受阻于体育运动和课外活动安排。 在青少年使用数字技术方面,需要在保持社交联系和规避风险之间取得平衡。建议家长可以先让孩子使用功能简单的手机或只使用短信功能,逐步过渡到社交媒体。 对青少年心理健康最重要的影响因素是与关爱成人的良好关系,而非朋友关系。青少年需要来自社区中所有人的关爱和支持,而不仅仅是父母。青少年渴望与成人建立联系,但成人的负面评价可能会破坏这种联系。 青少年在学校表现良好,在家却很糟糕,这是因为学校生活对他们来说非常具有挑战性,他们需要在家里释放压力。家长应该像垃圾桶一样,接纳孩子的情绪垃圾,而无需试图解决问题。青少年失去朋友或找不到归属感是很常见的挑战,青少年只需要一两个好朋友就足够了。 我们对青少年的看法会影响他们,夸大他们的痛苦会减少真正需要帮助的青少年的资源。现在的青少年比我们那一代表现更好,他们吸烟、饮酒、性行为都更少。 Adam Grant: 作为一名青少年父母,我面临的最大挑战是在提供足够支持和避免过度干预之间取得平衡。当青少年14岁左右开始具备抽象思维能力时,家长可以与他们坦诚沟通,寻求他们的建议。家长应该真诚地与青少年沟通,并尊重他们的观点,这样才能更好地帮助他们。青少年生活复杂,家长应该接纳他们的复杂情绪,并寻求他们的帮助来调节情绪。

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Dr. Lisa Damour discusses the current state of teen mental health, highlighting the simultaneous existence of high rates of happiness and a genuine mental health crisis. She emphasizes the need for specialized care and addresses misconceptions about mental health, defining it as having feelings appropriate to the situation and managing them effectively.
  • Teenagers report high levels of happiness and enjoyment alongside stress and anxiety.
  • The teen mental health crisis is exacerbated by a shortage of specialized clinicians.
  • Mental health is about having context-appropriate feelings and managing them well, not just feeling good.

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Adolescence can be an emotionally volatile time, and in the age of social media, concerns about teenage mental health are more pressing than ever — for teens and parents alike. Dr. Lisa Damour is a clinical psychologist who specializes in teenagers and their mental health, consulting on the Pixar film Inside Out 2 and authoring the New York Times bestselling books Untangled, Under Pressure and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers. Lisa and Adam discuss the real problems facing teenagers today and unpack misconceptions about mental health, how many friends and how much sleep teens really need and why it truly takes a village to raise a teenager.

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