I missed this.
Infants need mental health checks[BBC]
A tenth of two to five-year-olds have a serious psychiatric illness, yet most cases are being missed, warn experts.
Goodness !
Experts’ shock at children’s mental health [Torygraph]
A mixture of genetic and environmental influences was likely to be at the root of the problems, said Dr Adrian Angold, addressing a conference at the Institute of Psychiatry in London.
That sounds very bad.
‘One-in-10 kids are mentally ill’? That’s madness [Spiked]
I suppose it is progress of sorts. After all, only six years ago we were informed that one in five children were so afflicted (2). Halving the rate of childhood mental distress in six years is no mean feat, and would, if true, have me praising those campaigners and professionals responsible for such an improvement in children’s wellbeing. But these statistics reflect, not changes in the psychological health of children, but changes in how we categorise and view childhood behaviour.
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