Concerns raised over child mental health

FIFTEEN percent of a sample group of children aged 11-13 in middle-class schools around Dublin fulfilled the criteria for a current mental disorder, a conference will hear today.

Concerns raised over child mental health

Experts from psychiatry, psychology, social work, nursing and health research are meeting to discuss youth mental health and the influencing role it has on a young person’s future.

Speaking about her research, which examined rates of psychiatric illness among Irish adolescents, Professor Mary Cannon, a Health Research Board clinician scientist and consultant psychiatrist at Beaumont Hospital, said the research was conducted with 1,131 primary-school students in north and west Dublin and Kildare.

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