Global Family Mental Health Lab Duke University

Adolescent Well-Being

Adolescence is a period in which mental health problems commonly emerge and in which relationships take on new significance. Our lab develops and evaluates interventions focused on young people’s emotional well-being, their relationships, and the family and health system contexts that shape how they cope.

Current

Husisha Kenya Problem-solving therapy adapted for delivery by peer counselors barely older than the adolescents they see. PREPAREDAffiliated Kenya A prevention program addressing adolescent mental health and relationship violence together, co-created with a community advisory board.

Past

Caring for Child Survivors Ethiopia, Thailand An evaluation of a flexible mental health treatment for children carrying several kinds of distress at once, delivered by lay providers.