# Fragmentation in adolescent health care provision

## TL;DR

The paper calls for better integrated mental health care for adolescents by addressing system misalignments.

## Contribution

The paper introduces a new framework for adolescent mental health care that emphasizes integration and long-term impacts.

## Key findings

- Structural misalignments in health, education, and social care affect adolescent mental health care.
- Adolescent admissions require a whole-system and lifespan approach to understand long-term impacts.

## Abstract

This editorial argues for integrated, developmentally informed models of mental health care for adolescents that address pervasive structural misalignments across health, education and social care. Adolescent admissions must be understood within a whole-system and lifespan framework, recognising varied reasons for admission and long-term impacts on engagement, trust and identity.