Mental health of young people, one in five suffers from anxiety or depression: how to teach resilience
British investigation: a toxic combination of health inequalities and asociality, caused by the interruption of the school, but also of routine and social relationships during the pandemic, created a perfect storm
Children and young people are in crisis and are going through A real perfect storm for their mental health: one in 5 young people, between 8 and 25 years old, suffers from a form of Anxiety and depression, According to recent data from the English National Health Service. 20.3% of these children or young people are 8-16 years old, 23.3% 17-19 years and 21.7% are in the largest band (20-25 years). What are the causes? A toxic combination of health inequalities and asociality, caused by the interruption of the school, but also of routine and social relationships during the pandemichas created a perfect storm for bad mental health in young people.
Parents in economic difficulty
The investigation also shows that more than one child out of 4 aged between 8 and 16 years (26.8%) with a potential mental disorder has A parent in economic difficulty, who cannot afford his child to take part in extracurricular activities. 11/16 year old kids, always with probable mental disorders, they run a 5 -time risk greater than being victims of bullying Compared to peers who do not suffer (36.9% against 7.6%). It is also more likely to be Persecuted online (10.8% compared to 2.6%). This, however, is not a photograph that concerns only the United Kingdom. According to the World Health Organization, in the world Between 10 and 20% of subjects from 0 to 18 they suffer from mental disorders; 75% of psychiatric pathologies debut before the age of 25 and half have symptoms before the age of 14.
Exposure to stressful events
The concern is great and the experts are wondering about the real existence of a mental health crisis or, more simply, if Young people are not enough resilient. Boston Children’s Hospital researchers recently conducted a longitudinal study that explores The effects on children of exposure to stressful eventshow pandemics may have been, to different types of trauma (abuse, negligence and violence or accidents) and how much family resilience on experience affects the International and outsourcing symptoms of psychopathology in childhood. The results, published on Communications Psychologyhighlight specific factors that could influence the onset of mental health problems following difficult life events.
Anxiety, depression, hyperactivity
Internalizing disorders, such as Anxiety, depression, social retreat and psychosomatic paininvolve the addressing of discomfort and emotions inwards. On the contrary, outsourcing disorders manifest themselves as dysfunctional behaviors directed to the outside, as aggression, impulsiveness, hyperactivity and challenge to authority. According to research, the stressful events experienced at 1-2 years and 2-3 years foreseen internalizing symptoms only in girls.
Confront the world
«Aspects of the family resilience, including higher levels of commitmentability to face challenges and a sense of control, have reduced the risk of internalizing symptoms, while only a greater sense of control has reduced the risk of outsourcing symptoms at the age of 7, even in the context of a trauma « , the authors write. Resilience, when it comes to children, cannot be an individual responsibility; Therefore, it cannot depend only on their will. The emotional ability to resist and adapt has its roots in support that is received from friends, family and communitiesboth at school and in social and sporting activities. The mental health of children – as we read by crossing the data – travels hand in hand with Funding to services for families and the little onesbecause resilience trains not in the solitude of one’s home, but confronting the world, in controlled and culturally valid contexts.
