Child, Adolescent & Youth Mental Health • WPA

Objectives

Some of the proposed work will focus on groups of children, adolescents and young people are at higher risk of mental disorder and poor wellbeing and may include:

Promote implementation of effective interventions to detect and treat mental disorder at an early stage in childhood and adolescence given most lifetime mental disorder arises before adulthood
Implement effective interventions to treat and prevent child/parental mental disorder during pregnancy and the perinatal period
Implement effective parenting interventions which both treat behavioural disorders, prevent mental disorder and promote child/parental wellbeing
Implement effective pre-school and school-based interventions to treat mental disorder early, prevent mental disorder and promote mental wellbeing
Promote early detection for psychosis and developing crisis intervention centres for adolescents
Workplace screening for early detection of mental disorder among the young workers and promoting wellbeing in the workplace
Conduct a series of educational multidisciplinary programmes highlighting the challenges and opportunities for digital child and adolescent psychiatry services