Exploring pathways for promoting mental health among children and adolescents in the context of Chinese practice

LI Jing; SONG Yi

doi:10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2025283

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LI Jing, SONG Yi. Exploring pathways for promoting mental health among children and adolescents in the context of Chinese practice[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2025, 46(9): 1217-1221. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2025283

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LI Jing, SONG Yi. Exploring pathways for promoting mental health among children and adolescents in the context of Chinese practice[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2025, 46(9): 1217-1221. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2025283

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Exploring pathways for promoting mental health among children and adolescents in the context of Chinese practice

doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2025283

LI Jing,
SONG Yi^,

School of Public Health/Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China

Received Date: 2025-04-24
Rev Recd Date: 2025-07-10

Available Online: 2025-10-10

Publish Date: 2025-09-25

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Mental health issues among children and adolescents have become an important public health problem. To address the growing complexity of mental health issues among children and adolescents as well as the emerging challenges posed by novel influencing factors the study develops a framework for promoting mental health among children and adolescents including dimensional elevation reduction and breakthrough approaches. It also proposes a paradigm innovation of "awareness-analysis-action-assessment-advance". The study comprehensively considers the traditional and new influencing factors and introduces new technologies such as digital technology so as to achieve dynamic adaptation and system optimization of theory and practice thereby advancing the high-quality development of the mental health service system with Chinese characteristics for children and adolescents.
- Mental health,
- Health promotion,
- Child,
- Adolescent

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