Adolescent mental health: Issues, challenges, and solutions

Challenges for child and adolescent mental health.

Mental health challenges and possible solutions.

The World Health Organization (WHO) was established 60 years ago based on a constitution that in its first paragraph stressed that its principles are basic to the “happiness, harmonious relations and security to all people...”. The stress on mental health aspects was repeated in the definition of health to show that this was not an incidental choice of words [1]. Again 30 years ago when the dec...

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...

Health system challenges and solutions to improving mental health outcomes.

This is the fourth paper in our series of four articles on mental health and the global development agenda. The first paper addressed core conceptual issues in mental health, the second addressed social and economic challenges to getting mental health on the global agenda, the third addressed international and national policy challenges to developing and implementing mental health policy in cou...

Finnish challenges and solutions on community mental health services

This keynote paper examines the historical developments in Finland in developing community mental health services. In particular, it describes the development and growth of the ‘clubhouse model’ in the support and management of individuals with mental health and how Finland leads the way in such an approach. The paper describes the relative success of this ‘integrated’ model of care and conside...