#TeenMentalHealth Report Day 3: ‘Great to see surveyed teenagers so engaged in subject of mental health’

The ReachOut Ireland/ Irish Examiner survey showed there isn’t a ‘shared understanding’ around mental health amongst our teenagers and we should be resourcing young people to support friends, writes Claire O’Sullivan as she analyses the findings.

OVER 60% of Irish teenagers didn’t describe themselves as happy in this week’s IrishExaminer/ ReachOut Ireland survey.

The nationwide study of 2,500 boys and girls, aged 13-19, found that 32% rated their mental health as average while 30% describe it as “poor” or “very poor”.