Promoting adolescent well-being: Drawing from basic and applied developmental frameworks and research
- Cooper, E., Vandenberg, C., Sjolseth, S., Short, K., Sherman, H., Hanson, E., O’Neal, C. W., & Lucier- Greer, M. (2024). Promoting adolescent well-being: Drawing from basic and applied developmental frameworks and research. Auburn, AL: Military REACH.
- To support the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy (MC&FP) in developing efforts to promote adolescent well-being, the Military REACH team was asked to develop a literature review of recent research on best practices for supporting adolescent well-being. To accomplish this objective, this report provides both background information and current trends in adolescent well-being. Applied frameworks and approaches for promoting adolescent well-being as well as empirical findings on barriers to service utilization and strategies to remediate barriers and improve service utilization are also discussed. Lastly, the literature presented is synthesized into research-based recommendations for implementing large-scale adolescent well-being initiatives. These recommendations are not intended to be prescriptive or exhaustive; rather, they are meant to provide MC&FP and other stakeholders with actionable considerations and to encourage further brainstorming of how research and theory can inform initiatives to promote adolescent well-being.
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