Carolina Plata

professor

Carolina Plata is a professor at the Faculty of Behavioral Sciences at the Universidad de La Sabana, focusing on the social and cultural mechanisms that contribute to mental distress. She emphasizes the impact of traditional gender roles on women's mental health and advocates for understanding the different ways men and women express psychological suffering. Recently, she was in the news discussing the urgent need for emotional validation and support for adolescents, particularly in light of alarming rates of suicidal ideation among young people in Colombia.