Mental Health and the Transition to Adulthood
Jane McLeod, Phd
Friday, February 24th
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9:30-11:30 am
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420 W. 118th Street, International Affairs Building 8th Floor; Room 801
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Topic
Youth's mental health problems have profound social implications. Youth with serious emotional disturbances are significantly less likely than other youth to graduate from high school, to enroll in postsecondary education, and to be employed after high school. They are also less likely to be married or in a stable, romantic relationship in early adulthood, and young women with serious mental health problems are more likely than others to bear children premaritally. Despite persuasive evidence for the difficulties which troubled youth face during the transition to adulthood, basic questions regarding the temporal form and social underpinnings of that association remain unanswered. This talk presents new answers to these questions through an analysis of the high school experiences and subsequent socioeconomic attainment of troubled youth.
Instructor
Dr. McLeod is a medical sociologist with interests at the intersection of social psychology, the life course, and mental health. Her current research focuses on the associations among stratification, stress, and mental health over the life course, the life-course consequences of mental illness, and societal responses to children's mental health problems. She is Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and Director of Research for the Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research.
Audience
This lecture is targeted at researchers from the social and behavioral sciences and medicine who investigate questions that are causal in nature. The course will assume the participant has the mathematical and statistical sophistication typical of graduates of Ph.D. programs in psychology, political science and sociology.
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The Health & Society Scholars Program at Columbia University is a postdoctoral program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It is a joint initiative of the Mailman School of Public Health and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) at Columbia, and is co-directed by Bruce Link and Peter Bearman. For more information call 212-854-3694 or email chssp@columbia.edu.
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