Lucy Foulkes
British psychologist of adolescent mental health at Oxford; Coming of Age.
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- Lucy Foulkes is a British academic psychologist and writer on adolescent mental health and social development.
- She is a Prudence Trust Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford.
- With Jack Andrews she proposed the prevalence inflation hypothesis: that mental health awareness can lead people to read mild distress as a mental health problem.
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- Education
- PhD (2011 to 2015) and postdoc, University College London1
- Books
- What Mental Illness Really Is (2021); Coming of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us (2024)1
- Also
- Honorary lecturer, University College London; senior research fellow, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families1
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