ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the wider aspects of children and young people's (CYP) mental health and well-being within the UK. Referring to Urie Bronfenbrenner's work this chapter follows a discussion of the ways in which they navigate their responses and lives in order to cope and, for some, to survive. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on Social and Emotional Wellbeing for Children and Young People utilises three definitions: emotional well-being, psychological well-being, and social well-being. If the 5–12 age group is one of the individuals, the teenage years are those of the macrosystem. The deluge of the macro into the sanctity of the individual has for more and more signalled alarm for many professionals and parents and a warning for an era in which physical and material boundaries and explanations to mental health issues have blurred.
