%V 66 %D 2025 %O © 2024 The Author(s). Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). %P 271-274 %A TIm Hobbs %A Vashti Berry %A Peter Fonagy %T Editorial Perspective: A systems approach to addressing young people’s mental health %J Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry %X This editorial considers the relationship between the social determinants of young people’s mental health and a systems perspective. It argues that efforts to improve young people’s mental health must address not only the macro-influences, but also the local manifestations of these. We argue that an approach that integrates systems thinking, evidence that is contextualised to local context and participatory design is required. %I Wiley-Blackwell %L discovery10196858 %N 2