Kyoko Amai is an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Nursing, at Chiba University. Her research interests center primarily on access and quality of care for adolescents who do not seek nor accept support from others. In particular, she focuses on identifying internal and external protective factors and lifelong development influences of adolescent non-support-seekers. Her project aims to suggest innovative support methods that approach non-support-seekers’ internal changes besides current social policies. She was awarded a Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1) and Restart Postdoctoral Fellowship (RPD) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.