Child mental health and wellbeing: exploring the nexus between the child as an agent and the environmental context

• Main Authors: Sigfrid Grenseth, Anne, Dybdahk, Ragnhild
• Other Authors: Kỷ yếu hội thảo quốc tế về sức mạnh tâm thần trẻ em Việt Nam lần thứ V: hiểu biết về sức khỏe tâm thần ở trường học và cộng đồng, 2019
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: Vietnamese
• Published: Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội 2020
• Subjects: child; childhood
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/98335
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Any child, or idea of childhood, exists in an environment which contains social, cultural, physical and historical relations and characteristics. To study and support children as they perceive and engage in the surrounding local social life, it is necessary to produce knowledge from the nexus between the agentive child and the interacting environmental complexity. In this presentation, we will discuss insights from social- and health anthropology underlining how social practices and cultural values interplay in views of children and senses of wellbeing.