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591 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2004)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0591 and id is 1 raw text is: Preface By CHRISTOPHER PETERSON 6 How can we promote the mental health of adolescents? To answer this question, the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands asked Kathleen Hall Jamieson to undertake an Adolescent Mental Health Initiative in the form of a series of conferences in 2003 at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. The goal of these confer- ences was to create consensus documents sum- marizing what was known about effective preventions and treatments for such psychologi- cal problems among youth as anxiety, depres- sion, suicide, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and substance abuse. These documents will eventually appear in a book to be published by Oxford University Press and explicitly modeled after Nathan and Gorman's (1998, 2002) influential volume A Guide to Treatments That Work for adults with psycho- logical problems. As valuable as these reviews will be, the insights they provide are necessarily incom- plete, which is why one additional commission was created under the leadership of Martin Seligman to address positive youth develop- ment and its relevance to adolescent mental health. Imagine a society in which no young per- son meets the diagnostic criteria for mental ill- ness because treatment and prevention have been pervasively and perfectly implemented. Imagine a society in which no one reports any symptoms of a disorder. Imagine a society in which risks have been purged. In such a society, individual suffering due to psychological prob- Christopher Peterson is a professor of psychology at the University of Michilgan, where he formerly was the director of clinical training and held an appointment as the Arthur E Thurnau Professor, in honor of his contri- butions to undergraduate teaching. He has a long-stand- ing interest in personality and its relationship to good and bad adaptation. His most recent project, with Mar- tin Seligman, is a consensual classification of the charac- ter strengths and virtues that make possible the psycho- logical good life. DOI: 10.1177/0002716203260077 ANNALS, AAPSS, 591, January 2004

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