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1. Adulthood Outcomes of Child and Adolescent Depression : From Mental Health to Social Functioning
Sammanfattning : Depression is a common mental disorder affecting people across the lifespan, with first onset frequently occurring in the teenage years. The disorder is costly to society and constitutes one of the leading causes of disability in youths and adults worldwide. LÄS MER
2. Ambivalent Ambiguity? : A study of how women with 'atypical' sex development make sense of female embodiment
Sammanfattning : Against a backdrop of feminist and social scientific research on sex, female embodiment, and normality this thesis aims to discern how young women, who in adolescence have learned that their bodies are developing in ways considered ‘atypical’ for the female sex, make sense of their bodies and their situation. In focus are the ways in which the women make sense of and negotiate female embodiment; how they, particularly in stories about their interactions with others, position their embodied selves; and how norms and beliefs about sexed embodiment, heterosexual practice, and in/fertility are strengthened and challenged in the interviewees’ sense-making. LÄS MER
3. Close to the edge : discursive, gendered and embodied stress in modern youth
Sammanfattning : Background Adolescent subjective health and mental problems have become a public health concern not only in Sweden but worldwide. The overall aim of this thesis is to deepen and widen the understanding of young peoples’ subjective health, psychosomatic and stress-related problems. LÄS MER
4. Well-being Processes : Insights into Personal Growth and Adolescent Mental Health
Sammanfattning : This thesis follows two main lines of inquiry into well-being processes: 1) atheoretical exploration of personal growth, defined as the gradual growth of wellbeing, and 2) an empirical exploration of students’ mental health profiles and sense of self. Altogether five studies are included in the thesis, two of which follow thefirst line of inquiry (articles I and II) and three of which follow the second (articlesIII, IV, and V). LÄS MER
5. The preterm child in dentistry. Behavioural aspects and oral health
Sammanfattning : Allt fler för tidigt födda barn överlever tack vare en avancerad intensivvård, vilket innebär att tandvården möter en ny grupp av patienter som är födda 3 till 4 månader för tidigt. Många av dessa barn riskerar att få bestående fysiska och psykiska problem. LÄS MER