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News - Teenage years: Self-harm is a difficult, yet prevalent topic in the lives of many teenagers. Article covers ways in which parents can help their children.
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Expressing feelings to parents is difficult for many teenagers
Teenagers who engage in self-harm do so…
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News - The diagnosis of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) based on specific actions (such as not sitting still), and subsequent treatment with stimulants, antipsychotics, and antidepressants to assist parents and teachers in dealing with …
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News - LSE’s Professor Sonia Livingstone and Mariya Stoilova explain the findings of their new report on the impact of digital experiences on adolescents with mental health vulnerabilities.
Two main reasons why this topic is increasingly relevant: …
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News - 'This pandemic is wreaking havoc on mental health', says Kristin Wilson, Vice President of Clinical Outreach for Newport Healthcare, which provides mental health treatment for teens and young adults nationwide.
According to the Wisconsin Office of Children’s Mental Health…
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The article discusses what can clinicals do to help their patients build resilience as they face unfortunate consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While COVID-19 has affected people across all age groups, the statistics indicate that the pandemic had a devastating…
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News - An independent review of children’s social care in England has been published. The review is based on conversations with children and young people, which were organized in March 2021.
The published reports include:
a summary of conversations with hundreds of…
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News - UK: Recent statistics show that self-harm incidents among incarcerated women and children have risen to record levels
Issue at hand:
Incidents of self-harm among women in UK prisons have increased by 47% in three months to June 2021 (Safety in Custody Statistics)
Over…
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News - Discussion about experiences of young people in care with complex PTSD and ways of improving support
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March 2021: ACAMH joins CAMHS (an online journal club) in a discussion of PTSD in young people in care
Discussion revolved around Rachem M Hiller’s recent…
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Online library - This guide-toolkit is designed to help users to reflect and plan on how to better implement concrete actions to prevent and tackle the spread of fake news, in order to create a resilience community to such threat.
This document presents how to organize effective…
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News - Belgrade, 12 October 2021 - UNICEF Serbia has launched an awareness raising campaign, "From My Angle", dedicated to the mental health of young people. A screening of the Canadian documentary Connecting the Dots, marked the beginning of this campaign,…
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News - More than 14% of young people around the world between the ages of 10 and 19 are diagnosed with mental health disorders, and suicide is the fifth-most-common cause of death of youngsters that age.
Despite the severity of the problem, children’s mental healthcare is…
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News - A BBC investigation found that children in the United Kingdom have longer waits for mental health care due to the pandemic.
The data obtained by the BBC shows that from April 2020 to March 2021, 50% of children had to wait more than four weeks for mental health care, …
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Online library - Childhood is usually seen as a responsibility-free stage of life where adults are “in charge” while children are the subjects of attention and care. However, across Europe, a significant number of children and young people provide care to a family member or a…
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News - Joe Lepper reports for Children and Young People Now about the findings of a survey on children and young people’s mental health services.
The survey in question was conducted by NHS Providers in May 2021 and involved leaders from more than half of NHS trusts that support…
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News - High school students experience many highly emotional situations and should be supported in learning how to regulate their emotions, especially in the school environment.
An increased change in emotions in students can affect their grades, general…
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News - Systemic inequalities have led to the detrimental impact, on a large scale, of the Covid-19 pandemic on the mental well-being and health care of young people from different racialised communities.
UK Youth, Center for Mental Health and The Diana Award are excited to…
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Multimedia - Based on research conducted with children and young people aged 13 to 17, Childnet International has designed a tool for educators, moderators and facilitators of high school students. This tool should provide support and enable conversations that are primarily…
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News - Chaminda Jayanetti writes for The Guardian that, according to Observer analysis of government data, the NHS has seen a significant rise in referrals of young people with eating disorders.
In 2020, 19 562 new referrals of under-18s with eating disorders (a rise of 46%…
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Online library - The material is intended for parents of children and teenagers, for people working with teenagers, but also for teenagers themselves so that they can understand their parents ‘concerns better. It contains answers to 30 questions and situations that teenagers ‘…
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Online library - This workbook has been developed for use with teenagers who experienced one or more traumatic events. The activities in the workbook correspond to the treatment components of the Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) model, which was…
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News - The report describes the girl who is going to celebrate Christmas in a new country (UK) without her family, somehow because of Covid-19 and how she is planning to copy this situation. She feels that celebrating entire holidays alone (not entirely by choice)…
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News - Children in mental health wards are suffering from the consequences of Covid-19. Kamena Dorling, head of policy and advocacy at children’s rights charity Article 39, said “Every child detained in hospital has a right to an advocate", but a report shows that visits from…
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News - The beginning of September marks a very important moment in our lives, mainly because children restart school after months in quarantine. While a lot of parents in the United Kingdom - and not only - are still working from home, their kids are being sent to school with more…
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News - People struggling with mental health issues need professional help to recover. Sometimes, this might involve inpatient care to get the support they need. Rachel, a former inpatient in an eating disorder unit, shares her experience and offers advice to…
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News - "When I started my journey into recovering from my eating disorder, I soon learned that I had lost the ability to connect to my authentic self, and struggled to access my emotions, after years of numbing and suppressing them."
This is what Elsie, age 18, declared to Young…
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News - The Trevor Project, founded in 1998, has a 24-hour hotline for at-risk LGBTQ youth, with chat and text services. It also has a social network for international LGBTQ, called TrevorSpace.
The Trevor Project successfully applied for Google’s AI Impact Challenge, and received…
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Online library - The range of services aimed to support young people at risk of becoming homeless are lacking according to a new research by charity Homeless Link.
Poor welfare support, lack of information,…
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Multimedia - With the start of the pandemic in 2020, meetings and community halls quickly moved in the online space. YouthLink Scotland created a new mental health and wellbeing resource and engaged with six youth work organisations who have adapted their service and support to be…
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News - Returning to life after being sentenced and serving time in jail is a difficult task for young people in conflict with the law. In most cases, they feel unwelcome or ostracized, and return to criminal activity…
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News - SOS Hotline for Women and Children Victims of Violence Niksic organised the Second National Webinar under the J/TiP project "Improving provision of services and awareness to combat Trafficking in Persons in the Balkans, Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo"…
