Sally Weale Education correspondent
Friday 29 April 2016
The crisis in
children’s mental health is far worse than most people suspect and we are in
danger of “medicalising childhood” by focussing on symptoms rather than causes,
the government’s mental health champion for schools has warned.
Natasha Devon, who
has been working in schools for almost a decade delivering mental health and
wellbeing classes, said an average of three children in a class were
diagnosed with a mental illness, but many more slipped under the radar.
“The question we should be asking ourselves is
what
are the emotional and mental health needs of all children and are they
being met in our schools?” she said.
“Time and time again over recent years young
people – and the people who teach them – have spoken out about how a rigorous
culture of testing and academic pressure is detrimental to their mental health.
The conference was told that though drinking,
smoking, drug taking and teenage pregnancy were down among young people, rates of depression and anxiety have increased by 70% in a
generation, admissions to hospital as
a result of self-harm have doubled in four years
Monday
20 January 2014
Children and young people are growing up in an "unprecedented toxic climate"
of stress and pressure, according to a survey.
Monday 18 August
2014
Vulnerable children continue
to be left without adequate mental
health support.
De Nederlandse overheid
richt zich op het beschikbaar stellen van slechte psychische gezondheidszorg en
dan nog zo weinig en zo goedkoop mogelijk. Dat doet de overheid door middel van
een strak geregisseerd monopolie en bureaucratisering. De psychische
gezondheidszorg is door de overheid volledig geïnstrumentaliseerd ter
ondersteuning van eigen ideologie en belangen.
