Minority Stress and Teens: How Minority Stress Affects Mental Health (Watch Video)
This webinar took place on November 19, 2025. View the event's recording.
Please join UCSF Assistant Professor Chase Anderson, MD, MS, for a webinar to help families, friends, and anyone who takes care of minoritized teenagers understand the psychological stressors they experience. Dr. Anderson will discuss what minority stress is, how it impacts teens, and how we can support them. Hosted by UCSF Family Services.
Dr. Chase T. M. Anderson (but just call them Chase), a child and adolescent psychiatrist, is the Director of The Muses Program for Minoritized Youth at UCSF. He completed his undergraduate degree in Chemistry and master’s in Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before earning his medical degree from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, after which they completed a residency in adult psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at UCSF.
Their writing has appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Mental Health, NPR, Scientific American, WonderMind, STAT News, and other news and journal outlets. In their free time, he enjoys going for long walks, doing queer things, listening to K-pop, reading fantasy books, playing soccer, writing, planning dinners with friends, and dreaming of how we can better the world together.