Many practitioners are less accustomed to working with adolescents; their perceived unpredictability and intense emotional responses can often make clinicians second-guess themselves. Challenges in differentiating normal teenage behavior from bona fide pathology, for instance, can lead to any number of ...
Urgent mental health issues in adolescentsdoi:10.1016/s2352-4642(19)30069-0Elena Dalla VecchiaMárcia M CostaEsther LauThe Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
Latinx kids who experienceddepression, anxiety, or other mental health issues in middle school had a greater chance of developing sleep problems, as well as unhealthy weight gain and sedentary behavior, in high school, according to a study published in theJournal of...
With increases in mental health problems concentrated among adolescents and young adults, “the results suggest that cultural trends in the last 10 years may have had a larger effect on mood disorders and suicide-related outcomes among younger people compared with older people,” according to the r...
Siegel recommends adolescents engage in specific activities that facilitate physical and emotional health and ongoing integrative brain development by stimulating neuronal activation and growth. He sees fragmented attention, multitasking, a...
"I have acquired the techniques of how to deal with adolescent mental health issues via the project. Also, we realized that we should not only attend to sexual and reproductive health but also take initiatives to offer help to adolescents in school," Mo noted. ...
Or is it the other way around? And they're related. It almost doesn't really matter. But we know that people who suffer from, for example, anxiety or depression, which are the most common mental health challenges that...
Recognition of symptoms and lack of fear of stigma may be crucial to adequate help-seeking for mental health issues. Stigmatization, self-stigmatization, embarrassment and shame are often seen in connection to mental disorders. After a mental health teaching programme, adolescents showed more understand...
As a result of the present study, three categories of prodromal symptoms of mental health issues in adolescents were extracted: “Instability in mental status”, “Unstable interpersonal relationships”, and “Anger and critical thinking”. “Instability in mental status” included observations by the...
A study done by Psychiatry Online corroborate the WSJ, stating that mental health issues among adolescents rose in the early 2010s. From anxiety to depression, mental stability took its hit due to the increase use of social media. The effect has permeated to present day. ...