Hospitals and Healthcare

Teens are facing a mental health crisis, and the worst thing that could happen is for them to face it alone, experts said. One group meets together every month to learn tools and build community around mental health — and it wants adults to do so, too.

With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.

In a new C.D.C. survey, 18- to 24-year-olds reported the highest levels of symptoms of anxiety and depression, and a quarter of them said they had seriously considered suicide.

Health professionals who say they have seen an increase in the number of very young children under the influence of solvents and inhalants warn the consequences of their actions are irreversible.

More than 5000 children and teenagers were hospitalised for self-harm in Victoria over two years, as psychologists grow increasingly concerned a "contagion effect" has normalised the behaviours.

As a student, parent, teacher, coach, or health professional, learn strategies to help improve the mental health of young people in your life, recognise concerning behaviours, and feel better prepared to have conversations about mental health.

March 18, 2022. It is a night I will never forget. I had been out with mates, gotten home and I was just feeling the lowest I had ever felt in my entire life. I ended up being in hospital for 16 hours.

Depression, self-harm and suicide are rising among American adolescents. For M, a 13-year-old in Minnesota, the despair was almost too much to take.

The continuation of lockdown and remote learning for most secondary year levels is badly affecting students' mental health.

I’m a pediatrician, and when I see adolescents in my clinic, I ask them if they are drinking alcohol (among other risky activities). Then I counsel them if they answer in the affirmative. I want young people to be safe.

But doctors lack the evidence base — we don’t have enough studies — to know how much of a difference this makes.

Injuries, such as motor vehicle crash, youth violence, and suicide, are the leading cause of child and adolescent death. However, almost all of these injuries can be prevented through the widespread application of evidence-based practices and policies.

Public health experts, nurses, physicians, social workers, teachers, child care providers, and parents all play a vital role in pediatric injury prevention. Despite its impact, very little training on injury prevention science currently exists.

This course lays a broad foundation for pediatric injury prevention and will increase your understanding of this major public health issue through powerful, concise, up-to-date lectures, interviews, and demonstrations from a multidisciplinary panel of nationally-recognized injury prevention experts.