Mobilizing Minds: Integrated knowledge translation and youth engagement in the development of mental health information resources
High rates of highly persistent mental health problems can have significantly damaging effects on young adults’ lives, and young adults are less likely to seek treatment for such problems. This article describes a unique Canadian knowledge translation project called Mobilizing Minds: Pathways to You...
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| author | Christine A Garinger Kristin A Reynolds John R Walker Emma Firsten-Kaufman Alicia S Raimundo Pauline C Fogarty Mark W Leonhart Mobilizing Minds Research Group |
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| description | High rates of highly persistent mental health problems can have significantly damaging effects on young adults’ lives, and young adults are less likely to seek treatment for such problems. This article describes a unique Canadian knowledge translation project called Mobilizing Minds: Pathways to Young Adult Mental Health, which aimed to impact not only the mental health literacy of young adults, but to engage young adults in the entire research process from inception to dissemination of results. Knowledge translation is a process that involves producing and assessing the quality of the knowledge to be translated and tailoring the knowledge to be user friendly for particular segments of the population. The article gives particular attention to the ways in which the Mobilizing Minds project was influenced by youth engagement. We discuss three aspects: 1) structures, processes and communication; 2) project products; and 3) challenges and responses. Lessons learned specific to intergenerational collaboration will be of interest to youth as consumers of mental health information and services, mental health practitioners, researchers, and decision-makers seeking to improve mental health at a systemic level.
Keywords: knowledge translation, young adult, mental health, participatory research, youth engagement, youth-adult partnerships |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7756264db90d48b1bbc4fabaa6c438c12022-12-22T02:42:23ZengUTS ePRESSGateways1836-33932016-09-019110.5130/ijcre.v9i1.44153192Mobilizing Minds: Integrated knowledge translation and youth engagement in the development of mental health information resourcesChristine A Garinger0Kristin A Reynolds1John R Walker2Emma Firsten-Kaufman3Alicia S Raimundo4Pauline C Fogarty5Mark W Leonhart6Mobilizing Minds Research Group7mindyourmind, a program of Family Services Thames ValleyDepartment of Clinical Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaDepartment of Clinical Health Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaMobilizing Minds Project CoordinatorMobilizing Minds Research Group, CanadaTherapeutic Recreation Program, Confederation College, Thunder Bay OntarioDepartment of Clinical Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaMobilizing Minds Research Group, CanadaHigh rates of highly persistent mental health problems can have significantly damaging effects on young adults’ lives, and young adults are less likely to seek treatment for such problems. This article describes a unique Canadian knowledge translation project called Mobilizing Minds: Pathways to Young Adult Mental Health, which aimed to impact not only the mental health literacy of young adults, but to engage young adults in the entire research process from inception to dissemination of results. Knowledge translation is a process that involves producing and assessing the quality of the knowledge to be translated and tailoring the knowledge to be user friendly for particular segments of the population. The article gives particular attention to the ways in which the Mobilizing Minds project was influenced by youth engagement. We discuss three aspects: 1) structures, processes and communication; 2) project products; and 3) challenges and responses. Lessons learned specific to intergenerational collaboration will be of interest to youth as consumers of mental health information and services, mental health practitioners, researchers, and decision-makers seeking to improve mental health at a systemic level. Keywords: knowledge translation, young adult, mental health, participatory research, youth engagement, youth-adult partnershipshttps://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/ijcre/article/view/4415 |
| spellingShingle | Christine A Garinger Kristin A Reynolds John R Walker Emma Firsten-Kaufman Alicia S Raimundo Pauline C Fogarty Mark W Leonhart Mobilizing Minds Research Group Mobilizing Minds: Integrated knowledge translation and youth engagement in the development of mental health information resources Gateways |
| title | Mobilizing Minds: Integrated knowledge translation and youth engagement in the development of mental health information resources |
| title_full | Mobilizing Minds: Integrated knowledge translation and youth engagement in the development of mental health information resources |
| title_fullStr | Mobilizing Minds: Integrated knowledge translation and youth engagement in the development of mental health information resources |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mobilizing Minds: Integrated knowledge translation and youth engagement in the development of mental health information resources |
| title_short | Mobilizing Minds: Integrated knowledge translation and youth engagement in the development of mental health information resources |
| title_sort | mobilizing minds integrated knowledge translation and youth engagement in the development of mental health information resources |
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