Globally, mental health problems affect 10%–20% of children and young people, accounting for a large portion of the worldwide disease burden (Hussey et al., 2024). Whilst the last two decades has seen a significant investment in research, design, and delivery of mental health therapies, as well as in the provision of psychological and psychiatric services, it is becoming increasingly important to view mental health not in isolation but as shaped by social conditions such as poverty, inequality, education, employment, and other factors of life. (Hobbs et al, 2024; European Mental Health Week, 2025).
The European Mental Health Week (19 – 25 May 2025) initiative, set up and ran by Mental Health Europe, aims to raise awareness of the importance of mental health in our everyday lives. For 2025, European Mental Health Week encourages the public to consider the links between mental health and social policies.
This European Mental Health Week, please explore the FREE learning opportunities available on our website and ACAMH Learn and do share with your networks.
Resources
ACAMH Learn
- Inside the Teen Brain – A Second Chance with Professor Rosie Meek
- Inside the Teen Brain – Risky Business with Dr. Dominique Thompson
- What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)? with Dr. Nic Hooper
- Pop culture, stories, and metaphors in CBT with youth with Dr. Robert Friedberg
- Goals and gains of preventive youth care across the globe with Professor Geertjan Overbeek
- The Evolution of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services – 1960 – 2010 and influences on our practice today – Part I with Dr. Arnon Bentovim
- The Evolution of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services – 1960 – 2010 and influences on our practice today (Part II) with Dr. Arnon Bentovim
- Mental health interventions in schools with Professor Tamsin Ford
- Disparities in access to child mental health care services with Assistant Professor Andrea Young
Podcasts
- Mental Health and Sexual Minority Individuals with Dr. Kunle Oginni
- Mental Health Care for Marginalized Children with Dr. Kenisha Jackson
- Mental Health in a Rapidly Changing World with Prof. Gonneke Stevens
- Flourishing vs Languishing with Prof. Corey Keyes
- No decision about me, without me: Collaborating with young people in mental health research with Dr. Alex Lloyd and Romana Saleh
- Our Children are Our Future: Socio-economic Inequality and Child and Adolescent Mental Health with Professor Kate Pickett and Professor Richard Wilkinson
- Special Educational Needs (SEN) Provision and Academic Outcomes: Exploring the Impact of Teacher Reported Language Difficulties at School Entry with Dr. Sarah Griffiths
Video Abstracts
- RESEED – the perceived impact of an enhanced usual care model of a novel, teacher-led, task-shifting initiative for child mental health with Setareh Ekhteraei and Choden Dukpa
Articles
- Why do some children from low-income families manage to thrive cognitively? with Divyangana Rakesh
- TeaLeaF- task shifting children’s mental health care to primary school teachers in the Darjeeling Himalayas of West Bengal, India with Catherine Canavan Shrestha
Open Access papers from ACAMH journals
- CAMH Original Article ‘The protective role of community cohesion across rural and urban contexts: implications for youth mental health’, (March 2025), Alexis Brieant, Keith B. Burt
- CAMH Original Article ‘Longitudinal effects of green, blue, and gray spaces on early adolescent mental health in the United States’, (March 2025), Shannon Shaughnessy, Daniel Messinger, Spencer C. Evans
- CAMH Original Article ‘The role of neighbourhood greenspace quantity on mental health and cognitive development in early to middle childhood: a multilevel growth curve analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study’, (March 2025), Georgia Cronshaw, Emily Midouhas, Peninah Murage, Eirini Flouri
- CAMH Original Article ‘Associations between air pollution and surrounding greenness with internalizing and externalizing behaviors among schoolchildren’, (March 2025), Uxue Zubizarreta-Arruti, Rosa Bosch, María Soler Artigas, Judit Cabana-Domínguez, Natalia Llonga, Pau Carabí-Gassol, Valeria Macias-Chimborazo, Laura Vilar-Ribó, Josep Antoni Ramos-Quiroga, Mireia Pagerols, Raquel Prat, Cristina Rivas, Èlia Pagespetit, Júlia Puigbó, Gemma Español-Martín, Bruno Raimbault, Antonia Valentín, Jordi Sunyer, Maria Foraster, Mireia Gascón, Miquel Casas, Marta Ribasés, Silvia Alemany
- CAMH Original Article ‘Bullying victimization among adolescents during the early phase of war in Ukraine – A comparative cross-sectional study in 2016–2017’, (March 2025), Sanju Silwal, Minja Westerlund, Olga Osokina, Susanna Hinkka-Yli-Salomäki, Matthew Hodes, Norbert Skokauskas, Andre Sourander
- CAMH Original Article ‘Intergenerational consequences of racism in the United Kingdom: a qualitative investigation into parents’ exposure to racism and offspring mental health and well-being’, (March 2024), Carl Simela, Tolúwalàse Akanbi-Akinlolu, Malaika Okundi, Hannah Abdalla, Tom A. McAdams, Androulla Harris, Alex Augustine, Huong Le, Kadra Abdinasir, Ziada Ayorech, Yasmin I. Ahmadzadeh
- CAMH Original Article ‘The role of adolescent social inclusion in educational attainment among vulnerable youth’, (March 2024), Heidi M. Renner, Bosco Rowland, Delyse Hutchinson, John W. Toumbourou
- CAMH Original Article ‘Childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: socioeconomic inequalities in symptoms, impact, diagnosis and medication’, (March 2024), Anna Pearce, Paul Henery, S. Vittal Katikireddi, Ruth Dundas, Alastair H. Leyland, Dasha Nicholls, Russell M. Viner, Lynda Fenton, Steven Hope
- JCPP Annual Research Review ‘Exposure to environmental chemicals and psychosocial stress and the development of children’s learning difficulties’, (March 2025), Amy E. Margolis, Alex Dranovsky, David Pagliaccio, Gazi Azad, Virginia Rauh, Julie Herbstman
- JCPP Original Article ‘The influence of deprivation on cortical development and psychotic symptoms in youth’, (March 2025), Megan Thomas, Sarah Whittle, Vanessa Cropley
- JCPP Original Article ‘Intersectional marginalized identities as predictors of time until first reported suicide attempt among preadolescent youth using survival analysis’, (January 2025), Annabelle M. Mournet, John K. Kellerman, Jessica L. Hamilton, Evan M. Kleiman
- JCPP Annual Research Review ‘Cash transfer programs and young people’s mental health – a review of studies in the United States’, (December 2024), Sara R. Jaffee, George Lin, Matthew Z. Fowle, Vincent J. Reina
- JCPP Original Article ‘Social connection and its prospective association with adolescent internalising and externalising symptoms: an exploratory cross-country study using retrospective harmonisation’, (December 2024), Bettina Moltrecht, João Villanova do Amaral, Giovanni Abrahão Salum, Euripedes Constantino Miguel, Luis Augusto Rohde, George B. Ploubidis, Eoin McElroy, Mauricio Scopel Hoffmann
- JCPP Original Article ‘Exploring mechanisms behind the increasing gender gap in adolescent psychological symptoms, 2002–2022: the role of national-level gender equality’, (December 2024), Margreet E. de Looze, Alina Cosma, Frank J. Elgar, Karen Schrijvers, Jo Inchley, Sophie D. Walsh, Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens
- JCPP Annual Research Review ‘Associations of socioeconomic status with cognitive function, language ability, and academic achievement in youth: a systematic review of mechanisms and protective factors’, (December 2024), Divyangana Rakesh, Paris Anne Lee, Amruta Gaikwad, Katie A. McLaughlin
- JCPP Original Article ‘Feeling anxious and being engaged in a warming world: climate anxiety and adolescents’ pro-environmental behavior’, (June 2024), Andrik Becht, Jenna Spitzer, Stathis Grapsas, Judith van de Wetering, Astrid Poorthuis, Anouk Smeekes, Sander Thomaes
- JCPP Original Article ‘Socio-demographic variation in diagnosis of and prescribing for common mental illnesses among children and young people during the COVID-19 pandemic: time series analysis of primary care electronic health records’, (June 2024), Louise Jane Hussey, Evan Kontopantelis, Pearl L. H. Mok, Darren M. Ashcroft, Matthew J. Carr, Shruti Garg, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Nav Kapur, Karina Lovell, Roger T. Webb
- JCPP Original Article ‘Health, behavior, and social outcomes among offspring of parents with criminal convictions: a register-based study from Sweden’, (May 2024), Aurora Järvinen, Paul Lichtenstein, Brian M. D’Onofrio, Seena Fazel, Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Antti Latvala
- JCPP Advances Original Article ‘The co-occurrence of social adversities in early adolescence and their relationship to cognitive outcomes later in development’, (March 2025), Man Shiu Kwok, Amber Inman, Kathryn E. Bates, Delia Fuhrmann
- JCPP Advances Original Article ‘Prenatal exposure to adverse life events and autism and autistic-like traits in children in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa)’, (March 2025), Aleksandra Kanina, Arvid Sjölander, Miriam I. Martini, Agnieszka Butwicka, Henrik Larsson, Amanda M. Hughes, Márta K. Radó, Mark J. Taylor, Alexandra Havdahl, Helga Ask, Mina A. Rosenqvist
- JCPP Advances Original Article ‘Change over time in perceived schoolwork pressure and associations with emotional problems among 11–16-year-olds: A repeat cross-sectional study in Wales, UK’, (March 2025), Jessica M. Armitage, Gemma Lewis, Nicholas Page, Foteini Tseliou, Rebecca Anthony, Simon Murphy, Graham Moore, Stephan Collishaw
- JCPP Advances Original Article ‘Associations between socioeconomic status and mental health trajectories during early adolescence: Findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study’, (February 2025), Divyangana Rakesh, John C. Flournoy, Katie A. McLaughlin
- JCPP Advances Original Article ‘Do the early social environment and persistent peripartum depressive symptoms shape toddlers’ expressive language?’, (February 2025), Hsing-Fen Tu, Linda Forssman, Emma Fransson, Alkistis Skalkidou
- JCPP Advances Original Article ‘Emotion and peer problems in autistic adolescents: The role of puberty, school adjustment and bullying’, (January 2025), Erin O. Dawe-Lane, Rob Saunders, Eirini Flouri, William P. L. Mandy
- JCPP Advances Original Article ‘Beyond the income-achievement gap: The role of individual, family, and environmental factors in cognitive resilience among low-income youth’, (December 2024), Divyangana Rakesh, Ekaterina Sadikova, Katie A. McLaughlin
- JCPP Advances Original Article ‘Parental education and income are linked to offspring cortical brain structure and psychopathology at 9–11 years’, (February 2024), Linn B. Norbom, Jaroslav Rokicki, Espen M. Eilertsen, Thea Wiker, Jamie Hanson, Andreas Dahl, Dag Alnæs, Sara Fernández-Cabello, Dani Beck, Ingrid Agartz, Ole A. Andreassen, Lars T. Westlye, Christian K. Tamnes
- JCPP Advances Original Article ‘Interplay of early negative life events, development of orbitofrontal cortical thickness and depression in young adulthood’, (December 2023), Lea L. Backhausen, Jonas Granzow, Juliane H. Fröhner, Eric Artiges, Marie-Laure Paillère-Martinot, Hervé Lemaître, Fabio Sticca, Tobias Banaschewski, Sylvane Desrivières, Antoine Grigis, Andreas Heinz, Rüdiger Brühl, Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos, Luise Poustka, Sarah Hohmann, Lauren Robinson, Henrik Walter, Jeanne Winterer, Gunter Schumann, Jean-Luc Martinot, Michael N. Smolka, Nora C. Vetter, the IMAGEN Consortium