Transcript The Facts - Young Minds

Mental Health and
Mental Distress:
The Facts
Damian Hart
Young Minds Trainer /
Consultant
Prevalence among children
aged 5 – 15 in the UK
Risk factors
but no obvious
problems now
Mental health
problems
3 million or
20%
1.5
million
or 10%
Mental or
psychiatric
disorder
30,000 or
0.2%
Severe disorder or
mental illness
Office for National Statistics:
1 in 10 children aged five to sixteen has a clinically significant mental health
problem
5.8 % have clinically significant ‘conduct disorder’
3.7 have clinically significant ‘emotional disorders’
1.5 % have clinically significant ‘hyperkinetic disorders’
Statistically we know that many children and young people will have more
than one mental health problem (Co-morbidity)
We know that mental health difficulties can have higher levels of persistence
More than a quarter of children with diagnosable ‘emotional disorders’ and 43%
with a diagnosable ‘conduct disorder’ still had the problem three years later
50% adults with lifetime mental health problems experience
symptoms before 14 years of age.
75% adults with lifetime mental health problems experience
symptoms before their mid 20s.
Fewer than 50% were treated appropriately at the time.
(Taken from Mental Health Strategy 2011 DH
No Health Without Mental Health)
• Improved availability of early intervention services for
C&YP could prevent 25–50% of adult mental illness.
• Economic returns of early childhood intervention
programmes exceed cost by an average ratio of 1:6.
Mental ill health
Mental illness/disorder is likely to be a
“complex jigsaw of interlocking factors in
which the emotional and behavioural
consequences are the final common
outcome.”
(Shooter, M. 2008)
Children with Increased Vulnerability include those who are:
From families where parents are unemployed or have low
educational attainment
Looked after by the local authority
With disabilities (including learning disabilities)
From black, and other ethnic minority groups
Lesbian, Gay bisexual or transgender (LGBT)
In the criminal justice system
Children and young people who misuse substances
Refugee or Asylum Seekers
Traveller Communities
Those with Speech and Language Difficulties
Those with unresolved grief
Those experiencing trauma
Those who have high expectations placed on them by self or
others
Those with an Adverse Childhood Experience
With a parent with a mental health problem
With a parent who are using substances
Where there is domestic violence
Parental Separation
Those who have experienced Abuse – Emotional, Physical and or
Sexual
Neglect: Emotional or Physical
In a typical Yr11 class of 30 pupils..
10 of them will have witnessed their parents separate
(Kids in the Middle, 2008)
8 will have experienced severe physical violence,
sexual abuse or neglect (NSPCC, 2011)
3 will be living in a step family (Cabinet Offce, 2008)
1 will have experienced the death of a parent (Sandler
& Boat, 2008)
7 will report having been bullied (Youth Justice Board
for England and Wales, 2004)
Looked After Children have a range of Poor Outcomes including:
Education Outcome: Special Educational Need
Fixed term and Permanent Exclusion (SENDA)
Unlawful School Exclusion (Children's Commissioner Office)
Lower levels of educational attainment
Sexual Health:
Becoming Teenage Parents
Sexual Health infections
Crime:
Looked after Children 3 times more likely to be cautioned or
convicted
Alcohol / substances (88 times more likely to be involved in
drug use)
Care leavers 50 times more likely to go to prison
Higher levels of violence
Anti Social Behaviour
Social Exclusion:
Loose contact with families and communities of origin
Unemployment and Poverty
Homelessness
Self Harm
22,000 10 – 19 year olds related in hospital for treatment of self harm – a rise
of 11%
Between the age of 10 – 14 Hospital Admission through Self Harm a rise in
admission by 30%
Various reasons as to why people will self harm :
Release of emotions
Ability to nurture
Survival – Coping Mechanism
High levels of Anxiety
Yet often dismissed as Attention Seeking!
Childline say they carried out 47,000 counselling sessions in the past year for
children who self harmed – a rise of 40% on the previous year
The research report ‘talking self-harm’, was conducted by Cello’s CSR programme
‘Talking Taboos’ in partnership with YoungMinds, the UK’s leading children and young
people’s mental health and wellbeing charity, and integrates the results of advanced
qualitative and social media research with a quantitative sample of 2,500 parents,
teachers, GPs and young people.
UK TEENAGERS ‘NOWHERE TO TURN’ AS SELF-HARM SPIRALS
– Pioneering ‘talking self-harm’ research report lifts lid on hidden despair 3 in 4 young people don’t know where to turn to talk about self-harm
A third of parents would not seek professional help if their child was self-harming
Almost half GPs feel that they don’t understand young people who self-harm
and their motivations
2 in 3 teachers don’t know what to say to young people who self-harm
With 1 in 12 young people self harming in the UK
Young People – need access to help and support
Parents / Carers – 78% afraid to provide necessary support – a third would not
seek professional help if their child was self harming over issues of fear letting the
issues out of the home
Teachers – Unequipped to deal with the issue of Self harm much less comfortable
discussing the issue
GP’s – Half say they don't understand young people who self harm and their
motivations
GETTING IN TOUCH
Website: www.youngminds.org.uk/bond
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 020 7089 5050