Mental Health

“Mental health is being rated as [one of the] top 3 issues
in City of Greater Dandenong."

“Young People voting mental health as the highest percentage
(17.5% - Page 2, Youth Summit 2018).”

AnonymousThis
photograph 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.

心理健康已被列为大丹德农市（City of Greater Dandenong）的三大核心议题之一。

在2018年青年峰会（Youth Summit 2018）的调研中，青少年群体将心理健康列为占比最高的关切议题，相关数据见该峰会报告第2页，占比为17.5%。

本次青年展位展览（Youth Booth exhibition）展出了10名维多利亚州青少年于2019至2020年澳大利亚夏季创作的作品，其中匿名摄影作品记录了他们的集体生活体验：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。结合同期制作的系列视频，这些视角让我们得以窥见影响青少年教育体验的复杂现实。

对于学校、教师、家长与政策制定者而言，本展览凸显了倾听青少年心声并与其开展协作的重要性，这一点在制定政策、推行实践以构建更具包容性的社区时尤为关键。对于研究者而言，我们希望本展览能够展示一种可行路径：借助参与式视觉研究方法（participatory visual research methods）支持并强化青少年的话语权。

本次展览秉持基于权利的研究视角，强调不仅要倾听青少年的声音，更要在关乎其切身利益的事务上与其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至2020年在莫纳什大学（Monash University）开展，项目由莫纳什教育小额资助计划（Monash Education Small Grant Award）资助。