2024年10月9日 · With one-third of mental health conditions emerging before the age of 14 and half before the age of 18, early action is essential to enable children and young people to thrive and realize their full potential. Mental health services for …

2024年10月9日 · This document is designed to inform and inspire policy makers and others responsible for mental health services for children and young people, through introducing key issues to consider, important domains for standards of mental health care and by sharing a broad range of good practice approaches to developing or re-orienting services at ...

2023年1月1日 · In the 10 years leading up to the pandemic, feelings of persistent sadness and hopelessness—as well as suicidal thoughts and behaviors—increased by about 40% among young people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System.

2024年3月8日 · Good mental health in children and young people is supported when society • creates secure conditions for family-life and in other formative environments also during societal change, • ensures that each child has equal opportunities for self-esteem, mental health skills, learning and feelings of achievements,

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, children and young people carried the burden of mental health risks, with half of all mental disorders developing before age 15, and 75 per cent by early adulthood. Despite this, wide gaps exist between mental health needs and mental health funding.

Children and young people’s interventions to improve mental health and well-being outcomes: systematic review results-based convergent synthesis design. To support harmonisation and integration of syntheses across the review, we have formulated research questions that are complementary and contingent, where achieving a comprehensive answer to ...

2025年2月19日 · The types of use and content children and adolescents are exposed to pose mental health concerns. Children and adolescents who spend more than 3 hours a day on social media face double the risk of mental health problems including experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety. 3 This is concerning as a recent survey showed that teenagers spend ...

4 天之前 · Introduction. Mental health problems are the principal cause of disability in young people globally. Among adolescents and young adults aged 10–24 years, mental disorders were responsible for 28.2 million years lived with disability (YLDs) in 2019, nearly double the number of YLDs for the second-ranked Level 2 cause (neurological disorders, 14.7 million YLDs) [].

Supporting the mental health of children and youth will require a whole-of-society effort to address longstanding challenges, strengthen the resilience of young people, support their families and communities, and mitigate the pandemic’s mental health impacts. Here is what we must do:

Community-based group counselling is an important primary prevention method for improving resilience in children and young people. The aim is to provide early support, skills and knowledge to children and young people in the general population to reduce the likelihood or severity of mental health related concerns and/or diagnoses in the future.