HGSE | Askwith Education Forum Highlights the Challenges of Adolescent Mental Health
An Askwith Education Forum at the Harvard Graduate School of Education featured a panel discussion, hosted by Senior Lecturer Josephine Kim, including four field experts: MCC’s Rick Weissbourd; Alisha Moreland-Capuia, founder of the Institute for Trauma-Informed Systems Change at McLean Hospital; author and clinical psychologist Lisa Damour; and Linda Charmaraman, director of Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College.
The panelists explored a number of topics fundamental to adolescent mental health and tackled the “crisis” often wrongly portrayed in the media and outside of the academic community. Panelists focused on how parents and educators can help adolescents navigate a period full of challenges and sharpened perspectives on the differences between normative experiences and trauma-informed care.
