Beyond Labels: Straying from the ‘Path’ in Youth Mental Health

Let’s shift the paradigm! In this episode, two youth advocates with lived experience, Shayn McDonald (they/them) and Maxx LaBrie (they/he), shed light on the limitations of psychiatric labels in honoring the complex tapestry of young people's lives, and explore the power of shifting to intentional, person-first, human experience language. Discover the importance and foundations of human experience language as we seek to amplify the voices of young people and challenge you to think differently about the human experience. This episode is a call to action for those dedicated to supporting youth to challenge convention and to embrace the stories and narratives of young people in their words. 

Shifting from Pathologizing to Person-First Language pdf