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Alarming Rise in Mental Health Problems Among UK Kids

by Hannah Punitha on April 24, 2008 at 6:02 PM Mental Health News

Family breakdown and peer pressure are fuelling the numbers of children suffering from mental health problems in Britain, according to a report.

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The report reveals that the stresses of family life, friendships, and school account for depression amongst more than a quarter of under-16s.

These findings spring from the Good Childhood Inquiry, which is based on evidence of several mental health experts.

They suggest that 13 per cent of girls between 13 and 15 years old, and 10 per cent of boys in the same age group, suffer from mental health problems.

The two-year inquiry into the state of modern childhood, commissioned by the Children's Society, also bring to the fore scant availability of treatment for such problems.

The report comes after Unicef concluded that Britain was one of the worst places in the industrialised world to be a child.

It is based on the facts reported by thousands of children.

Twenty-seven per cent of children aged 14 to 16 said that they often felt depressed, while 22 worried about the state of their physical health. Seven out of 10 under16s said that they dieted some or all the time.

"Young people feel under a lot more pressure than they used to. They have high lifestyle expectations, which are often not met. The glamorising of the celebrity culture does not help since by definition most people cannot be part of it. There is more pressure to succeed in exams and be successful, yet fewer constructive activities and pastimes to take part in," Times Online quoted Stephen Scott of King's College London, who is one of the authors of the report, as saying.

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