Promoting mental health

The Children and Young People`s Mental Health Coalition of 14 charities points out that their vice chair, Mick Atkinson, will be speaking at the conference: `Promoting positive mental health in schools,`in November. Their attention is focused on policy in England, they say, as Scotland, Ireland and Wales now have their own priorities within young people`s mental health.

One of the policies the coalition wants to promote is early intervention and targeted support for vulnerable parents to promote babies` emotional development. They claim that 1 in 10 children and adolescents have a diagnosable mental health problem. "Addressing issues early helps individuals and society - that message needs a powerful voice."

http://www.cypmhc.org.uk/resources/promoting_positive_mental_health_in_schools_confer/

We may have our own priorities in Scotland, but the message is the same everywhere you look. Feckless parents failing - or at risk of failing - their children, a massive problem requiring immediate state intervention.

　
In the US, Health and Human Services have released $99 million to improve mental health servivces for young people. Training will be provided for new mental health workers who will help teachers and others to recognise pupils who have, or who are at risk of developing,  mental health issues and problem behaviours.

http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2014pres/09/20140922a.html

Good news for the drug companies.

 

This is Place2Be which works across the UK:

 

"Place2Be provides emotional and therapeutic services in primary and secondary schools, building children's resilience through talking, creative work and play. We currently reach 90,000 children, helping them to cope with wide-ranging and often complex social issues including bullying, bereavement, domestic violence, family breakdown, neglect and trauma."

http://www.place2be.org.uk/what-we-do/

Thousands of charities with their so-called experts have sprung up around children. With so many charities and their volunteers working with children now in place, why are mental health issues supposed to be increasing ?