Adolescent Mental Health and Achievement in the Neoliberal School Environment

This timely volume critically examines the influence of compulsory education and high-pressure school environments on the mental well-being of adolescents, using a participatory approach to encourage a deeper understanding of adolescents' real-life experiences of contemporary learning and achievement in schools.

Danilo Di Emidio is a Post Doc Research Associate, Global Public Health Unit/Centre for Public Health and Policy, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, UK.

Contents Endorsements Preface Acknowledgements Key Terms and their Implications in Educational Policies Part I: Education and Mental Health - Chapter 1: Introduction: The Quest for Formal Education-and My Quest! - Chapter 2: Problematizing Education and Mental Health: Discourses, Policies, and the Neoliberal Paradigm Part II: Knowledge Co-Production and Early Findings - Chapter 3: Doing Co-Production of Knowledge through Participation and Ethnography in an Educational Setting - Chapter 4: Towards Generating Key Themes and Co-Producing Analysis - Chapter 5: Subject Positions and the Mental Health Spectrum: A Starting Orientation Part III: Making Sense of Adolescent Struggles - Chapter 6: Responsibilisation and Adolescent Mental Health through Motivational Drivers - Chapter 7: Performance and Adolescent Mental Health under Neoliberalism - Chapter 8: Transition and Adolescent Mental Health While Progressing to University and Work Part IV: Managing Uncertainty and Crafting Closure - Chapter 9: Conduct and Resistance as Determinants of Subjectivity and Mental Health - Chapter 10: Conclusion: So! Does Schooling Influence Mental Health? Afterword: Conceptual, Methodological and Practical Implications for Policy Engagement and Transdisciplinary Reach Index