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By Biljana Vasilevska Trajkoska Introduction Today, many youth workers worldwide run activities that aim to support youth positive mental health. This article targets exactly those youth workers who (want to) work in this field. It gives some information about what psychological resilience of ... Read More about How youth workers support the development of youth’s resilience?

By Mario D’Agostino PROMOTING THE POSITIVE MENTAL HEALTH OF YOUNG PEOPLE OUTDOORS Towards the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century, the first summer camps were set to promote physical and mental health for children and young people, mostly from urban areas. The ... Read More about LESS DIGITAL, MORE OUTDOORS IN NATURE

By Sybren Bouwsma Explanation of theory/project This article refers to how an Erasmus+ Youth Exchange (YE) for people with a similar disability can help to increase their positive mental health. The experience of youth exchanges for young people who stutter is used as an example, with a ... Read More about Disability and peer support in youth exchanges

by Laura López Gámez Jon Kabat Zinn is an American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Centre for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. After years of practice of mindfulness and ... Read More about Cultivating a state of Mindfulness increases PMH

As part of the first intellectual output of the project, we have just published the Practice Brief: A Framework for Promoting Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing in the European Youth Sector. The practice brief is based on the Theoretical Framework that was also published as part of the first ... Read More about Practice Brief published!