In my graduation thesis I was researching about mental health amoung youth in Savinja region. In my research, I focused on the high school population. In last couple of years, epedimic affected almost everyone, including young people. In my home environment I also saw how the Covid-19 epidemic affected young people, so I decided to research the menthal health of youth in Savinjska region. In the first part of graduation thesis I studied theoretical sources. I talked about mental health, how mental health was affected by extreme circumstances, I talked about why is mental health important for young people. I also presented the most common mental health problem amoung young people, which are stress, anxiety and depression. Further more I identified protective factors and risk factors, focusing on family, school, friends and gender. I also connected mental health to the social work profession and finally I researched possible types of help available to young people in the Savinjska region.
I conducted a quantitative reseaarch where I tested previously posed research questions and hypotheses. The rusults of the survey showed that young people in Savinjska region rate their mental health as neither good nor bad. The biggest stressors for them are school and school obligations. Friends and family are important protective factors for youth. The Covid-19 epidemic has affected the mental health of youth. Their mental health deteriorated during the epidemic. Even in the post-epidemic period mental heatlh of youth has not returned to baseline, but it remains the same as during the Covid-19 epidemic, or it even got worse.
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