Mind Matters: Lessons from past crises for child and adolescent mental health during COVID-19

Although not a new phenomena amongst children and young people, mental health issues have come to the for during discussions on the effects of the pandemic on children’s well being. More research is needed, so lets start with this paper from UNICEF Innocenti: Mind Matters: Lessons from past crises for child and adolescent mental health

Youth – time for action? International Youth Day – Friday 12th August 2011.

The events in the UK during the last week has not only disgusted many in Britain, but with the worldwide spread of connected media -the whole world holds up young people in Britain as figures of shame. We all know it was a ‘handful’ of young disaffected youth that were to blame, yet the media seems