The Role of the Academy in the Face of Youth Well-being Challenges: Science, Politics, and Social Transformation
Keywords:
Salud mental, Bienestar, Ciencia transformadora, Caribe Colombiano, Transformación socialAbstract
The editorial reflects on the current challenges arising from a global context of constant transformation. Academia faces the pressing task of adapting its methods and approaches to complex problems that particularly affect younger generations in regions such as the Colombian Caribbean, marked by inequality, conflict, and cultural diversity. From this perspective, the journal Psicología desde el Caribe reaffirms its commitment to a transformative science that addresses pressing issues such as youth mental health, misinformation, procrastination, and well-being.
The editorial underscores the importance of open access, ethics in publishing, and the role of scholarly journals as mediators between science and society. It highlights the need to expand epistemic boundaries and to defend local and regional knowledge from a critical standpoint. Likewise, it acknowledges the work of those who make the journal possible and calls for a continued collective effort to build a science that engages with the realities of the Caribbean and Latin America.
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