Skovdal Morten
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2025 Sep;30(3):299-300. doi: 10.1111/camh.70023. Epub 2025 Jul 17.
Children and young people are subject to well-intentioned mental health research 'for' and 'about' them. The problem is that research is not value-free and carries certain subjective assumptions that shape how we view mental health and illness. Participatory research-which involves children and young people not just as the subjects of research, but as partners and collaborators in different stages of the research process-can be a mechanism through which we can counterbalance an unhelpful 'over-pathologising' research culture. Participatory research can help us retain strengths-based insights and focus on pathways to resilience and to flourishing, while developing interventions to address the psychosocial challenges that many children and young people experience.
儿童和青少年会成为针对他们且关于他们的善意心理健康研究的对象。问题在于，研究并非价值中立，而是带有某些主观假设，这些假设塑造了我们看待心理健康和疾病的方式。参与式研究——它不仅将儿童和青少年视为研究对象，还将他们视为研究过程不同阶段的合作伙伴和协作者——可以成为一种机制，通过它我们能够抗衡无益的“过度病态化”研究文化。参与式研究能够帮助我们保留基于优势的见解，专注于恢复力和蓬勃发展的途径，同时开发干预措施来应对许多儿童和青少年所经历的心理社会挑战。
