Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, UK.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2020 Jul;25(3):579-593. doi: 10.1177/1359104520907147. Epub 2020 Feb 21.
There is increasing global attention on the health and wellbeing needs of young people. Preventive and proactive approaches will likely lead to the clearest dividends for young people, their own children and wider society. A brief overview of the international context for young people's health care is given. As well as influencing policy, there are important roles for the health care team, including psychologists, to influence the organisations they work within, advocating for the needs of young people and their families. This is the focus of this article. The concept of developmentally appropriate health care (DAH) for young people is explored. It could help when planning services and approaches that respond to the needs of young people. Building relationships is likely to be key, to connect with young people to help them make health and wellbeing decisions, and provide individualised support. The 'connectedness' research could also be helpful in looking beyond the health care evidence. A key challenge for psychologists and their multi-disciplinary health care colleagues, in practice and research, is to move away from a reliance on binary, easier-to-measure health and wellbeing outcomes and, instead, find ways to promote and measure developmental outcomes that are meaningful to young people and their families.
全球越来越关注年轻人的健康和福祉需求。预防和主动的方法可能会给年轻人、他们自己的孩子和更广泛的社会带来最明显的回报。本文简要概述了年轻人医疗保健的国际背景。除了影响政策外，医疗保健团队，包括心理学家，在影响他们所在的组织方面也发挥着重要作用，倡导满足年轻人及其家人的需求。这是本文的重点。本文探讨了为年轻人提供发展适宜性医疗保健（DAH）的概念。在规划服务和方法以满足年轻人的需求时，它可能会有所帮助。建立关系可能是关键，与年轻人建立联系，帮助他们做出健康和福祉决策，并提供个性化支持。“连接性”研究也可以帮助超越医疗保健证据。对于心理学家及其多学科医疗保健同事来说，实践和研究中的一个关键挑战是，摆脱对二元、更容易衡量的健康和福祉结果的依赖，而是寻找促进和衡量对年轻人及其家人有意义的发展结果的方法。
