Not exact matches
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of
Adolescent and School
Health (DASH) According to the CDC and Project Appleseed are pleased to share two
fact sheets focusing on positive parenting practices.
In a 12 - month period, only 20 percent of children and
adolescents 6 to 17 years old who were defined as needing mental
health services received such services, most commonly in school.80 This is despite the
fact that early intervention is key to building resiliency, improving school performance, and reducing the risk of harm later in life.81
In
fact, it's so bad that the researchers reported that,» «The impact of these chemicals on the respiratory
health of children and
adolescents appears to be much more important — at least by a factor of five — than that associated with secondhand smoke.»
The new
fact sheet incorporates data from three recent studies of
adolescent sexual and reproductive
health needs and services in developing countries.
The following report and
fact sheets by Emerging Minds (previously trading as the Australian Infant, Child,
Adolescent and Family Mental
Health Association - AICAFMHA) are targeted towards youth participation:
In
fact, we also work with families, and consequently we are the mental
health profession most likely to work with
adolescents.
The
fact that most suicidal
adolescents who receive treatment see a mental
health specialist suggests that these
adolescents are getting access to those most qualified to treat them.
Research such as this exposes the
fact that 1 in 10 of all children display behaviours of the same magnitude as those currently being accepted and treated by Child and
Adolescent Mental
Health Services (CAMHS).
Guttmacher Institute,
Adolescent sexual and reproductive
health in the United States,
Fact Sheet, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2017, https://www.guttmacher.org/
fact-sheet/american-teens-sexual-and-reproductive-
health.
The Guttmacher Institute conducts global and country - level research to estimate
adolescent pregnancy rates; document
adolescents» access to sexual and reproductive
health information and services; and promote
fact - based, comprehensive sex education and youth - friendly, confidential services.
This translates to over one million adults who live with serious mental illness, and almost half a million children with serious mental
health conditions.2 Even more alarming is the
fact that about half of adults and two - thirds of
adolescents with mental
health needs in California do not get treatment.3