Adolescent mental health: Challenges with maternal noncompliance

Adolescent mental health: Challenges with maternal noncompliance

The leading cause of suicide ideation, attempts, and completion in adolescents is persistent and unresolved parental conflict. National statistics show extremely high rates of childhood neglect and abuse are perpetrated most often by single mothers. Psychiatric disorders arising from maternal-child dysfunction are well-documented. However, resources to prevent offspring victimization are lackin...

Challenges for child and adolescent mental health.

Grand Challenges: Integrating Maternal Mental Health into Maternal and Child Health Programmes

1 University of Liverpool, Institute of Psychology, Health & Society, Child Mental Health Unit, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Mulberry House, Eaton Road, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2 Social and Behavioral Interventions Programme, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 3 Mental Health Progra...

Improving adolescent maternal health.

Each year thousands of adolescent girls and young women in South Africa (SA) become pregnant and many die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. Although women of all ages are susceptible, girls<15 years of age are five times as likely, and those aged 15-19 years twice as likely, to die from complications related to childbirth than women in their 20s. In SA, non-pregnancy-relat...

Maternal mental health: Handle with care.

“Have you tried getting out more?” the health visitor asked. I explained again that stairs had been impossible since my emergency caesarean section a month ago. “I manage, and I have osteoarthritis,” she replied. “You really should try.” It felt like a slap. The lack of empathy for my physical pain meant I felt unable to share my more serious worries, such as my suspicion that my baby daughter ...