COVID-19 and Mental Health in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: An Enduring Crisis
Learn about the lasting impact on mental health, especially for vulnerable 18-29-year-olds, in our webinar on COVID-19 & Mental Health in Adolescence & Emerging Adulthood: An Enduring Crisis.
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Senior Research Scholar, Clark University
The COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating to people around the world. Although all age groups have felt the mental health impact of the pandemic, emerging adults ages 18 to 29 were the most vulnerable of all. Although in many ways life has now returned to normal, the mental health impact of the pandemic continues at a shockingly high level. All age groups are affected, but emerging adults have been and continue to be affected most of any age group. I will also discuss the pandemic’s mental health impact on adolescents, which is more complicated.
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About the speaker
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Senior Research Scholar, Clark University
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology in 1986 from the University of Virginia, and did 3 years of postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago. From 1992 through 1998 he was Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Missouri, where he taught a 300-student life span development course every semester. In the fall of 2005, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark; in 2010 and 2011 he was the Nehru Chair at Maharaja Sayajirao University in India; and in 2017 and 2018 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Bordeaux in France.
His primary scholarly interest for the past 25 years has been in emerging adulthood. He coined the term, and he has conducted research on emerging adults concerning a wide variety of topics, involving several different ethnic groups in American society. He is the Founding President and Executive Director of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA; www.ssea.org). From 2005 to 2014 he was the editor of the Journal of Adolescent Research (JAR), and currently he is on the Editorial Board of JAR and five other journals. He has published many theoretical and research papers on emerging adulthood in peer-reviewed journals, as well as the book Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties (2015, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press), among many others. Visit his website for more information.
Jeff and Lene live in Worcester, Massachusetts, with their twins, Miles and Paris.