Adolescents' mental health concerns, reported with an idiographic assessment tool.

The adolescents defined their own concerns at the start of counselling and were less troubled by these concerns after counselling. The content of the concerns might suggest that these adolescents experienced a need to improve across several arenas: personal, relational and academic. Research to extend the current study, to understand individual adolescent concerns, should include contextual and social factors and personal characteristics-and explore how counselling interventions can best help alleviate these personal concerns.