There are no easy solutions to the youth mental health crisis. Its causes are multiple. Still, health insurers must be held accountable for their part in making the situation much worse by evading all attempts to induce them to cover mental healthcare in ways that make it accessible. N...
Engagement can be particularly challenging in crisis situations, which is how many clients attracting psychotic diagnoses first enter the service. New Zealand M膩ori bring a transcendent quality to the idea of 'respect for Other', which would make it sacrilegious to overpower Other in most ...
WELLINGTON, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- The number of suicides in New Zealand has reached record high, with 685 people believed to have taken their lives through suicide in the year to June 30, Chief Coroner Judge Deborah Marshall said on Monday. There were 17 more deaths than in the previous y...
Some experience a “pre-election mental health crisis,” marked by sleep issues, worsening depression, catastrophic thoughts about the future, and even hallucinations. This distress in our youth often stems from an acute awareness of societal forces shaping their lives, coupled w...
Of course, SSIs are not a silver bullet for the youth mental health crisis. They cannot replace existing forms of higher-intensity care, which many will still need. But they can help millions of young people who would otherwise access no support at all. They can reduce wait times for ne...
In crisis, entrepreneurs react in the way they know how: working harder. Hustle culture, which has permeated stories from startup leaders, still has a pull on business owners. “There’s this feeling that you can’t pause or take your foot off the gas, essentially. You’re supposed to ...
Since the CDC released its survey results last month showing alarmingly high rates of sadness and depressive thoughts among teens,fingers have been pointed from two sides at the causes of this crisis.(1) .Others say that today's more secular(世俗的)...
Since a survey showing alarmingly high rates of sadness and depressive thoughts among teens was released by the CDC last month, fingers have been pointed from two sides at the causes of this crisis.1Others say that today’s more secular (世俗的) culture has confused our most vulnerable young...
In New Zealand, where math scores on international tests in the past decade have fallen steeply, a new government campaigned on bringing a “back to basics” approach to education. The government has mandated an hour of reading, writing and mathematics in school each day and has banned cellpho...
To examine the relationship between diet quality and mental health in an ethnically diverse adolescent population in New Zealand. Subjects/Methods: Cross-sectional, population-based study design. Data were available at baseline for 4249 students. Responses from self-reported dietary questionnaires were us...