Cases of children and teenagers hearing voices ‘quite common’

Teams from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are being trained on how to deal with children and young people claiming they are hearing voices.

A public talk taking place today in University College Cork will be told the issue of young people hearing voices is often not indicative of a mental health issue.

Rachel Waddingham of London-based organisation Mind In Camden is the key speaker at the event and she said scenarios in which children and teenagers say they are hearing voices are quite common and not always cause for alarm.