Tagged: psychosocial support

Moving the Needle on Mental Health for Young People

Child Rights Mental health

By Chantelle Booysen

Moving the Needle on Mental Health for Young People

Leading Minds Call on Global Action to Support and Protect Mental Well-Being for Youth    The following blog is the transcript of the closing remarks for the Leading Minds 2019 Conference for Children and Young People on Mental Health by Chantelle Booysen, Global Mental Health Advocate and Social Impact Entrepreneur.  In the last… Read more →←

Time to ramp up psychosocial support for adolescents in crisis settings

Data and Research Evidence

By Prerna Banati and Nicola Jones

Time to ramp up psychosocial support for adolescents in crisis settings

Globally, the increase in humanitarian crises, protracted conflicts, displacement, violence, terrorism, disease outbreaks, natural disasters and climate change is putting children and adolescents at significant risk of mental and emotional ill-health. Around a quarter of the world’s 1.8 billion young people live in areas affected by… Read more →←

Child mental health emerging from the shadows

Evidence to Policy Mental health

By Sarah Crowe

Child mental health emerging from the shadows

With suicide and self-harm now leading causes of death and injury among young people between 15 to 19 years, UNICEF and WHO are coming together for the first time at the Leading Minds for children conference to tackle the growing scale of mental health disorders among children and young people. On World Mental Health Day (10 October)… Read more →←

Turning the tide together on mental ill health for children

Data and Research Mental health

By Priscilla Idele, Prerna Banati and David Anthony

Turning the tide together on mental ill health for children

In some way, mental ill health has touched everyone. The statistics are alarming, and by some accounts constitute a public health emergency. Today, around 10-20 per cent of all children and adolescents suffer from some type of mental health disorder and mental health conditions account for around 16 per cent of the global burden of… Read more →←

Climate change, psychology and peace: Mitigating the impacts on children

Events Evidence to Policy

By Ann Sanson

Climate change, psychology and peace: Mitigating the impacts on children

Primatologist Jane Goodall has modified the proverb “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” to “… we are stealing it from our children”. She was referring to climate change, which has been described as the greatest health challenge of the 21st century (Costello et al., 2009), and will… Read more →←

Child and adolescent mental health key indicators of progress toward SDG targets

Publication & data launches SDGs

By Zlata Bruckauf

Child and adolescent mental health key indicators of progress toward SDG targets

Special note: Many will be unaccustomed to detailed UNICEF reporting on child and adolescent mental health issues. The latest edition of Innocenti Report Card on children in high income countries seeks to assess the status of 41 OECD and EU countries relative to the SDGs. In searching for relevant, contextually appropriate means for… Read more →←