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More than a quarter (26%) of students who say they experience mental health problems do not get treatment and only one in 10 use counselling services provided by their university, according to a National Union of Student ...
The Chief Social Worker for Children and Families, Isabelle Trowler - a social worker for many years who transformed children’s services in Hackney - will lead reform of the profession to deliver the best for children an ...
A survey for The Welcome Trust found that 1% of 14-18 year olds, used medicines normally prescribed for Alzheimer's disease and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to improve their focus, concentration or mem ...
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest 244,000 people under 19 are carers and about 23,000 are under nine.
The Children's Society says that in England, one in 12 young carers spends more than 15 ho ...
This opinion piece asks why the girls involved in the Oxford child abuse case weren't listened to.
The Mail Online reports on a large UK study which found that girls whose biological fathers were absent during the first five years of their childhood had an increased risk of symptoms of depression. This 'Behind the hea ...
Breastfeeding has a positive impact on the physical and mental development of infants. A new study suggests that breastfeeding may protect against the development of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) later ...
Next week the American Psychiatric Association is publishing its fifth take on the classification of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-5. In this article, two experts discuss the debate over the classification of mental dis ...
Theresa May told the Police Federation that police officers were not meant to be social workers, psychiatrists or ambulance drivers and should not have to spend 15 to 25% of their time dealing with people with mental hea ...
This statement says that The (Diagnostic Statistical Manual) DSM is a classification system used in the USA, and outside the USA it is primarily used for research purposes. In general, psychiatrists in Europe refer to th ...
Sarah Brennan, YoungMinds Chief Executive, and Bethany, a YoungMinds Young Advisor, appeared on ITV Daybreak talking about teenage depression.
This statement from the DCP covers the limitations of classification systems, and how there needs to be a paradigm shift in relation to the experiences that these diagnoses refer to, towards a conceptual system not based ...
A study published in the May 2013 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that mental health resources provided by schools are significantly associated with whether adolescen ...
Researchers found that the way in which children understood the conflicts between their parents had different effects on their emotional and behavioural problems. Where children blamed themselves for the conflicts betwee ...
This blog reports on a study from Netherlands, that have combined international research examining siblings’ role in children’s mental health. The study found that that sibling relationship quality is indeed related to c ...
The British Red Cross have worked with YoungMinds to produce video and Facebook first aid advice on the first actions to take on discovering someone who has taken a harmful substance. The Facebook page includes 10 pieces ...
A study from the University of Keele has examined links between bullying and different styles of playground humour.