mental health in children

[Isabelle]

http://www.thestar.com/living/article/626345

apparently something has happened in the last three decades, since late 1970s

quote: "When Ian Brown became a school psychologist 32 years ago, hardly anyone talked about mental health and kids in the same breath.

These days children's mental health is the topic he hears most about – from parents, teachers and principals – as a growing number of students arrive in class with signs of depression, anxiety, attention and behaviour problems."

[Naominjw]

Of course, from my point of view one problem is even in defining what is happening. We talk about "mental health" and "mental illness" in the same breath when in some cases, one may have nothing to do with the other. We are lumping different things together - the behavior and stress problems from psychological pressures and upbringing in modern society in with biological problems affecting the brain that may be arising from elements in modern society.

A point of view from having a child with "mental health" whose brain and body were affected anyway.

[Prot]

We are lumping different things together - the behavior and stress problems from psychological pressures and upbringing in modern society in with biological problems affecting the brain that may be arising from elements in modern society.




Those things are not necessarily mutually exclusive of each other. Biological problems in the brain may impact on how a person responds to psychological pressures and stress and alternatively psychological pressures and stress may increase the effect of biological problems affecting the brain.

Personally i think it is possible to get too bogged down in a semantic debate over the use of descriptors with a resultant defocussing away from the actual problems affecting the individual sufferer.

[Naominjw]

Those things are not necessarily mutually exclusive of each other. Biological problems in the brain may impact on how a person responds to psychological pressures and stress and alternatively psychological pressures and stress may increase the effect of biological problems affecting the brain.

Excellent point.