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The transition to legal and social adulthood involves not only newfound autonomy and opportunities, but also developmental challenges. This is especially the case for transitioning youth with mental health needs (TYMHN), late adolescents, and emerging adults who are receiving mental health services and experiencing transition-related difficulties. This chapter examines ways in which services and policies in the USA currently address developmental challenges of TYMHN in the transition to adulthood. A developmental-ecological framework is used, in which individuals’ health and maladjustment are seen as explicable only with reference to a particular setting and social environment. Consistent with this perspective, the chapter will focus on strategies for promoting individual adaptation to settings and social environments (positive youth developmental support) or responsiveness of settings to individual needs (ecological support), both among youth with current mental health needs and those who are at risk.

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    1 This chapter focuses on transition services in the USA. Few resources exist describing issues of TYMHN in other societies; however, cross-cultural and cross-national studies on the transition to adulthood may be useful in understanding specific issues of TYMHN outside of the USA (e.g., Schlegel & Barry, 1991; Shweder et al., 2006)

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    That, as opposed to specific types of stressful life events of stressful environments, would tend to be seen as family, social, or community risks.

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    In doing so, we followed the example of a recent review by Walker and Gowen (2011) as well as a model proposed by this group in recent “State of the Science” conference proceedings (Walker et al., 2013). Our categories resemble those proposed in these documents; changes were made to better align categories recent literature on assets for the transition to adulthood and the interventions discussed by the chapter.

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