Stronger Youth Project. Adolescent Mental Health in Six European Countries: Needs and Strengths. Global Report

Abstract

The project “Stronger Youth”- Empowering young people social competences and soft skills through peer mentoring” highlight the urgency of addressing the issue of mental health among adolescents. It aims to prevent depressive behaviors and social exclusion among young people by providing a methodology and complete toolkit for conducting peer mentoring. This document concerns the research task of Work Package #2 (WP2) – Developing the On-Line Skills Assesment Tool (OSAT), led by the Portuguese team. Specifically, this document reports two research activities (bibliographic and empirical) that were carried out in each partner country. The bibliographic research was designed to bring information and scientific evidence already produced within the scientific community of each partner country, and the empirical research to provide new and more specific information collected from adolescents from each partner country.