Youth mental health is a critical issue, influenced by a myriad of risk and protective factors. Social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram often perpetuate stigma through trivializing mental health conditions with simplistic quizzes.
Support Options/What Our Generation Can Do To Help The Next Generation
Treatment options such as individual psychotherapy/counseling, group therapy, medication, medical supervision, recreational therapies, complementary therapies (e.g., yoga or meditation), and organizations such as ChildLine, YoungMinds, Kidscape, or Family Lives
Ways our generation can help diminish the stigma surrounding mental health include refraining from partaking in online quizzes, jokes, and being kind to those who have mental health concerns
Risk Factors
Protective factors
Risk factors
How Youth Mental Health Is Undermined
How the youth make ignorant and benighted remarks regarding mental illnesses after looking at an image of that is not entirely symmetrical, but bypass the fact that these pictures and short-clips do not truly represent these mental illnesses
Social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter almost seem to endorse the stigma around mental health with posts and quizes titled "do you have OCD, take this simple quiz to find out" or "three simple questions to test if you have depression."
How Theresa May (British Prime Minister), pledged to undertake improvements on the government's approach to help mental health patients, but till this day no further action has been made on the issue.
Statistics supporting how the general enduring population is not receiving the support and aid they deserve.
Why Mental Health Is Important
How for most youth, mental health distress is episodic and not permanent, and most can navigate the challenges that come from experiencing a mental health disorder with a variety of support options.
What mental health actually involves besides the absence of disease or mental disorder.
Statistics describing what fraction of the general population meet criteria for a lifetime mental disorder and subsequently how they might encounter discrimination and negative inclinations.
What Is Mental Health?
Common misconceptions and myths regarding mental health.
Positive mental health benefits and strategies that are useful to cultivate positive mental health.
Early warning signs that can indicate whether a serious mental health concern might arise.
Factors that contribute to mental health problems (biological, life experiences, family history).