S03 E04 - Summer Holidays and Mental Health

The Emotional Curriculum - A podcast by Dr Sarah Taylor-Whiteway

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Send us a textIn this episode we talk to Dr Kelly Morgan from the DECIPHer, School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University about the impact of thesummer holiday on the mental health of adolescents. We discuss her research which gathered evidence from young people in Wales about their experiences during the summer holiday and found a significant impact of levels of deprivation on mental health. We unpick these results and touch on the power of social contact and the relevance of these f...