Young people's caring role in those communities may be perceived as normal duty and mental illness strictly taboo. This implies the need for improved cultural competences in mental healthcare services to engage with these communities. Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflict ...
While the reasons are not entirely clear, it may in part be due to reduced access to HIV counseling and the availability of preventive services, as well as less accepting attitudes towards sexual minority people. HIV testing and counseling as well as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), which can...
Between 8 and 15 program messages will be sent each day. Although this may seem like a lot, half of teens send 60 text messages a day [42], which is likely why we have found this intensity to be acceptable to young people [43, 44]. As shown in Table 1 below, messages targeting ...
The experimentation on people placed in asylums is one of the darkest parts of human history and really only ended less than 100 years ago. The horrific reality of what these medical doctors were allowed to do to human lives for the sake of a “cure” for insanity is appalling and ...
Article 22 February 2017 Delineating patterns of sexualized substance use and its association with sexual and mental health outcomes among young gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Singapore: a latent class analysis Article Open access 31 May 2021 Introduction...
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South Africa is the global epicentre of HIV infection, with an estimated 7.1 million people living with HIV [1]. HIV prevalence among South African youth is among the world’s highest [2], with prevalence rising rapidly throughout adolescence [3]. Adolescent women in South Africa are dispropor...
People differ in their levels of impulsivity and patience, and these preferences are heavily influenced by others. Previous research suggests that susceptibility to social influence may vary with age, but the mechanisms and whether people are more influe
Several trauma-focused therapies have shown good effectiveness with young people and are commonly offered in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) within the UK National Health Service (NHS). For example, Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is considered the psychological treatment ...
Public Health Reviews (2017) 38:20 DOI 10.1186/s40985-017-0068-1 REVIEW Open Access Screening for risky behaviour and mental health in young people: the YouthCHAT programme Felicity Goodyear-Smith1* , Rhiannon Martel1, Margot Darragh1, Jim Warren2, Hiran Thabrew3 and Terryann C. Clark4 ...