Year: 2012
Type: report
Abstract: Youth mental health is the major health issue for young people worldwide.Recent research carried out with adolescents aged between 12 and 15 in Dublin secondary schools has revealed that 15.6 per cent of those studied met diagnostic criteria for psychiatric illness (Lynch et al, 2006).A number of reports emphasise the need to develop and improve mental health services for young people (the Department of Health's Planning for the Future (1984), Development Plan for Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services in Ireland (2003), and A Vision for Change (2006); A Better Future Now, 2005, Irish College of Psychiatrists; Dooley & Fitzgerald's My World Survey, 2012).This study is a unique insight into young people's perceptions of mental health services in Ireland.
Authors: Sarah Buckley, Blainid Gavin, Colman Noctor, Catherine Devitt, Suzanne Guérin
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G6446219617
OpenAlex ID: W23608552