The findings raise questions about the role of the school environment in explaining rises in mental health difficulties among teenagers in recent years, says researchers.
Thousands of teenagers have grown up knowing nothing but poverty, with their families struggling to provide food, clothing, toys and books, says the Children's Society.
Young women who experience sexism are five times more likely to suffer from clinical depression, new research by the Young Women Trust and University College London has found.
Suicide prevention must address structural factors and examine how distress arises within power imbalances, says UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health.
Children and young people with mental health issues are being turned away from NHS services and up to 110,000 are missing out on treatment in a year, according to new figures by The Children’s Society.
Last year the Mental Health Foundation successfully complained to the Advertising Standards Authority about adverts for cosmetic surgery which were shown during the airing of Love Island.
People with mental health problems are 3.5 times more likely to be in problem debt than those without mental health problems, says the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute.
In South Sudan’s Yambio county, child soldiers who were forced to fight during the country’s long civil war are being demobilised. Some struggle with all that they have experienced. Médecins Sans Frontières is running a mental health support programme to help the children come to terms with their experiences as they reintegrate in their communities.