Impact of Mental Health

This
video featured in the Youth Booth
exhibition showcasing the work of 10 Victorian young people produced over the
2019-2020 Australian summer. Their work captures their collective experience:
being digitally savvy, the stress of study, influence of social media, climate
change and the impact of poor mental health. These perspectives, along with our
video series produced alongside this, allow us to see the complex situations
that impact the youth experience of education.For
schools, teachers, parents and policy-makers it highlights the importance of
listening and collaboration with young people, particularly when developing
policies and implementing practice to build more inclusive communities. For
researchers, we hope this exhibition highlights one way to use participatory
visual research methods to support and strengthen the voice of youth.

The
exhibition adopts a rights-based perspective which emphasises the importance
not only of listening to youth, but actively and authentically collaborating on
matters that directly affect them.

The
study was conducted by researchers Dr Christine Grove and Louisa Trainer in
2019-2020 at Monash University and is funded by the Monash Education Small
Grant Award.

本视频展出于青年展区（Youth Booth），该展区展示了10名维多利亚州青年在2019-2020年澳大利亚夏季期间创作的作品。这些作品记录了他们的集体经历：精通数字技术、学业压力、社交媒体的影响、气候变化以及心理健康状况不佳带来的冲击。这些视角，连同同期制作的配套系列视频，让我们得以洞悉影响青年教育体验的复杂境况。

对于学校、教师、家长与政策制定者而言，本展品凸显了倾听青年心声、与青年开展协作的重要性，尤其在制定政策、推行实践以构建更具包容性的社区之时。对于研究者而言，我们希望本次展区能够展现一种借助参与式视觉研究方法（participatory visual research methods）来支持并强化青年话语权的可行路径。

本次展区秉持基于权利的研究视角，不仅强调倾听青年声音的重要性，更强调在关乎青年切身利益的议题上开展主动且真诚的协作。

本研究由克里斯汀·格罗夫博士（Dr Christine Grove）与路易莎·特雷纳（Louisa Trainer）于2019-2020年在莫纳什大学（Monash University）开展，并获得莫纳什教育小额资助奖（Monash Education Small Grant Award）的支持。