Abstract
Living in poverty puts adolescents at risk for developing mental health symptoms. When living in poverty, adolescents are more vulnerable to experiencing or witnessing violence, which negatively impacts their mental health. Low socioeconomic neighborhoods and poor parent education negatively impact adolescent mental health. While living in poverty can negatively affect adolescent mental health, some protective factors on the individual, familial and community level can help decrease these negative effects. Confidence, parental support and involvement, and religion can help protect adolescents from the negative effects of living in poverty. Along with protective factors, interventions that have been established to help negate the effects of poverty, as well as what more can be done to help increase positive mental health for adolescents is explored.
Date of Award
12-1-2016
Document Type
Capstone Paper
Department
Counselor Education
Recommended Citation
Dannecker, Morgan, "Effects of Poverty on Adolescent Mental Health" (2016). Counselor Education Capstones. 59.
https://openriver.winona.edu/counseloreducationcapstones/59
Unique Identifier
wsucedcap0000059
Rights
Educational use only. All copyright protections apply.
