Sentences with phrase «treat youth mental health»

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«When young people come to youth mental health services, we should be assessing for trauma and for emerging psychotic symptoms, and treating them as soon as they emerge,» Dr Bendall said.

Enhance the capacity of the few youth services and health services in regional centres in Queensland who have the capacity to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth so that they can more routinely document cannabis use rates and effectively identify, refer, treat and respond to cannabis and related mental health issues in their clients, and;

Mental health problems affect around one in five youth in Australia and internationally, 1 with major personal, societal and economic ramifications.2 3 Children's mental health problems are primarily externalising (eg, oppositional defiance, aggression) and internalising (eg, anxiety, depression) problems.1 Up to 50 % of preschool behaviour problems persist through childhood if left untreated, then into adolescence and adulthood.4 Approaches to improving children's mental health in the population would ideally involve effective prevention in addition to clinical treatment of severe problems.5 6 Behavioural parenting programmes have the strongest evidence of efficacy to date for treating children's established behaviour problems.2 7, — , 10 Although effective, parenting programmes to treat children's established behaviour problems are cost - and time - intensive, and require an available workforce trained in evidence - based treatments.

AMERICA»S SCHOOLCHILDREN TREATED LIKE LAB RATS, by John W. Whitehead «In almost every state across the nation, schoolchildren are being subjected to behavioral exams and mental health tests, often without their parents» knowledge or consent... One such program is the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS).

For youth mental health in particular, the findings suggest that intervention procedures developed and tested over the decades in randomized controlled trials do have value for clinical practice but that a systematic restructuring of those procedures may enhance their benefits for clinically referred youths who are treated by practitioners in everyday treatment settings.