Mental health self-stigma and peer-victimisation in adolescence.

到了青春期中期，许多年轻人面临着反映情感困难的心理健康挑战（例如，抑郁、焦虑、自残），同时相当多的人被诊断出患有一系列神经发育障碍（例如，ADHD，自闭症谱系）。这些挑战往往伴随着心理健康的自我耻辱，这是相信你是从你的同龄人不同的误导和消极的方式。除了应对与他们的困难相关的症状外，这些群体与他们通常发展中的同龄人相比，也经历了更多的同伴排斥。这项研究将探讨心理健康自我污名是否会使同伴交往更有可能持续更长时间，并产生更糟糕的结果。为了实现这一目标，将与心理健康基金会及其青年集体合作，采用参与式研究方法（PRM）。有心理健康困难经历的年轻人将成为项目中有意义的合作伙伴，即他们将帮助确定研究的方向和性质，收集数据，解释结果，并将共同制定向同龄人传播结论的适当方式。为了使PRM方法取得成功，必须承认与项目合作伙伴进行有意义的讨论后研究发生变化的可能性。考虑到这一点，第一项计划中的研究将涉及与青少年进行访谈，这些青少年有心理健康耻辱和同伴歧视的生活经历。这些将探索他们的想法和感受，心理健康自我耻辱可能与同伴交往有关。第二项研究将要求年轻人在一年内完成三次调查，以评估心理健康自我耻辱在多大程度上是（i）持久性和（ii）同伴关系结果的风险因素。将与心理健康基金会及其青年集体合作制作有影响力和适合年龄的传播材料。

By mid-adolescence, many young people live with mental health challenges that reflect emotional difficulties (e.g., depression, anxiety, self-harm) and at the same time considerable numbers have diagnoses reflecting a range of neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., ADHD, Autism spectrum). These challenges are often accompanied by mental health self-stigma which is the belief that you are different from you peer group in misleading and negative ways. As well as coping with symptoms associated with their difficulties, these groups also experience more peer-victimisation as compared to their typically developing peers. This research will examine whether mental health self-stigma makes it more likely that peer-victimisation will last longer and will have worse outcomes. To achieve this, a participatory research methods (PRM) approach will be used in collaboration with the Mental Health Foundation and their Youth Collective. Young people with lived experience of mental health difficulties will be meaningful partners in the project, that is, they will help to shape the direction and nature of the research, collect data, interpret results, and will co-produce appropriate ways of disseminating the conclusions to their peers. For PRM approaches to be successful, the possibility of a research changing as a result of meaningful discussions with project partners must be acknowledged. With this in mind, the first planned study will involve interviews with adolescents with lived experience of mental health stigma and peer-victimisation. These will explore their thoughts and feelings about the ways in which mental health self-stigma might be associated with peer-victimisation. The second study will involve asking young people to complete surveys three times across one year to evaluate the extent to which mental health self-stigma is a risk-factor for the (i) persistence and (ii) outcomes of peer-victimisation. Impactful and age-appropriate dissemination materials will be produced in collaboration with the Mental Health Foundation and their Youth Collective.