Secondary Footer Menu – Position Statement: Prevention Of Mental Health And Substance Use Disorders In Young People

I know that the evidence regarding the advantages of systematic prevention and promotion programs is strong, and Mental Health America believes that the promotion of mental health and the prevention of mental health and substance use conditions could be central to the nation’s public health agenda.Evidence based programs are developed that will have positive effects not only on an individual’s health but also on multiple social health problems in educational achievement and the economy, among other social goods.

Mental health and substance use conditions affect large numbers of young people.

Symptoms occur in the course of the two years prior to meeting diagnostic criteria, and for their families. Communities. Not only for the young people. Whenever as pointed out by the Institute of Medicine, almost one in five young people have one or more such conditions at any given time. In 2009, the IOM released its seminal report.

Risk factors are well established, preventive interventions was rigorously tested and are available, and the first symptoms typically precede a disorder by 2 to 4 years.

Preventing Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders among Young People.

While in line with the IOM, clear windows of opportunity are available to prevent mental health and substance use conditions from developing into serious disorders before they occur. Approach has largely been to wait to act until a disorder is wellestablished and has already done considerable harm. Improvements in mental health will also improve overall for a while because mental health and general health problems are interwoven. Such interventions can be integrated with routine health care and wellness promotion in schools, families, and communities. Long time, Currently, treatment interventions tend to isolate single interventions focused on specific family adversities. I’m sure it sounds familiar. They also include social stresses like poverty, violence, lack of safe schools, and lack of access to health care, a bit of these risks reside in specific characteristics of the individual or family environment. Key to a number of these approaches is to identify biological, psychological, and social factors that may increase risk. Just keep reading! Resources within these agencies are scattered, not coordinated, and often do not effectively support prevention programs or policies.

a lot of providers and agencies are responsible for the care, protection, or support of young people.

No public system is formally charged with the responsibility of carrying out the critically important work of promoting health by fostering resilience and promoting ‘wellbeing’.

Officials at the local, state, and federal levels all play a role in mental health promotion and the prevention of mental health and substance use disorders. On top of that, leadership is necessary to make systematic prevention efforts a high priority in the health care system as well as an integral part of the network of local, state, and federal programs and systems that serve young people and families.