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The increase in persistent sadness and hopelessness among high schoolers is just as alarming. From 2011 to 2021, the rate of this condition per 100,000 teens leaped from 28,459 to 42,347. That is ...
Data from the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2021 showed that only 5.08% of the psychology workforce was Black — as opposed to 80.85% being white. According to Owoo, this disparity ...
The most recent data available from the CDC indicate about 78% of children ages 12-17 with mental health problems received some form of mental health treatment in 2019. That means that roughly 1 ...
Mental health literacy has been defined as "knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders which aid their recognition, management and prevention. Mental health literacy includes the ability to recognize specific disorders; knowing how to seek mental health information; knowledge of risk factors and causes, of self-treatments, and of professional ...
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for people in the United States from the ages of 9 to 56. [1] In the United States, for the year 2005, the suicide rate for both males and females age 25 and below was lower than the rate for ages 26 and up. [2] The death rate from suicide for teenagers peaked in 1980 for females and 1994 for males. [3]
Mental health. Historically, mental disorders have had three major explanations, namely, the supernatural, biological and psychological models. [1] For much of recorded history, deviant behavior has been considered supernatural and a reflection of the battle between good and evil. When confronted with unexplainable, irrational behavior and by ...
While devices, technology, and social media have many benefits, the deleterious effects on our children — the young brains under development, are contributing to this mental health crisis. We ...
The agency has released its first nationally representative survey of teens’ mental state during the COVID-19 outbreak. In the survey, more than half – 55 percent – of high school students ...