Objective Adolescence is a formative and turbulent phase where physiological,
psychosocial, and cognitive changes leave adolescents vulnerable to psychological …

Depression and anxiety often emerge for the first time during youth. The school environment
provides an ideal context to deliver prevention programs, with potential to offset the …

Mental health encompasses a range of mental, emotional, social, and behavioral functioning
and occurs along a continuum from good to poor. Previous research has documented that …

BackgroundAlthough mental disorders are significant predictors of educational attainment
throughout the entire educational career, most research on mental disorders among …

Not only do anxiety and depression diagnoses tend to co-occur, but their symptoms are
highly correlated. Although a plethora of research has examined longitudinal associations …

Mental disorders among children are described as" serious deviations from expected
cognitive, social, and emotional development"(US Department of Health and Human …

Unipolar depressive disorder in adolescence is common worldwide but often unrecognised.
The incidence, notably in girls, rises sharply after puberty and, by the end of adolescence …

OBJECTIVE: To present estimates of the lifetime prevalence of DSM-IV mental disorders
with and without severe impairment, their comorbidity across broad classes of disorder, and …

Background Depression is common in young people. It has a marked negative impact and is
associated with self‐harm and suicide. Preventing its onset would be an important advance …

Background: Little is known about changes in the prevalence of psychiatric disorders
between childhood and adolescence, and adolescence and adulthood. Methods: We …