• Question: Do you normally work with ‘extreme’ cases with mental health problems or with ‘normal’ mental health problems?

    Asked by anon-229156 to Alex on 14 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Alex Spiers

      Alex Spiers answered on 14 Nov 2019:


      We are focusing on/studying a sample of teenagers from 37 schools – they are representative of the teenage population in London.

      By one survey: at the moment one in twelve (8.1%) 5 to 19 year olds had an emotional disorder, with rates higher in girls (10.0%) than boys (6.2%). Anxiety disorders (7.2%) were more common than depressive disorders (2.1%).

      (see source: https://files.digital.nhs.uk/A6/EA7D58/MHCYP%202017%20Summary.pdf)

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