A Report on Mental Health Issues in Teenagers: Causes & Solutions

This report provides a comprehensive overview of mental health issues affecting teenagers, highlighting the various factors contributing to mental illness, such as stress, trauma, and social isolation. It discusses the impact of these issues on teenagers' emotional, social, and psychological well-being, including common disorders like depression, anxiety, and eating disorders. The report also explores different intervention strategies, including cognitive behavioral therapy, medication, and lifestyle adjustments, emphasizing the importance of early detection and support systems to mitigate the negative impact of mental health challenges in young people. The document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wealth of study resources and solved assignments for students.

MENTAL HEALTH
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Mental health and teenagers...................................................................................................3
Health issues and mental health.............................................................................................4
Reason of mental illness.........................................................................................................4
Intervention.............................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Mental health refers to behavioural, cognitive along with emotional wellbeing. It includes
how people think, behave and feel. This is the own in which people may face different issues like
depression, anxiety, substance disorder and many more. Mental illness can lead to change in
individual behaviour which can have high impact on their lifestyle and regular behaviour. This
can also have high negative impact on performing different tasks which are associated with their
daily life. Mental illness can be There is need to take care about the issue and essential to find the
reason of mental health issues which can lead to create high impact on individual behaviour. In
this, there is discussion about the mental health and its reason (Ridout & Campbell, (2018)).
There is also need to ensure about individual mental health. There is also discussion about
different measures which can be effective to provide better health impact to individual with
mental health.
MAIN BODY
Mental health and teenagers
Mental health includes emotional, social wellbeing and psychological wellbeing. This is the
one which can influence individual about performing task and think in different way. Mental
health can be good or bad which can impact individual lifestyle which can lead to create high
impact on individual behaviour. There are large number of teenagers who are getting affected
through the mental illness.
Teenagers are highly exposed to the mental illness which is due to not having proper
development. There are larger number of reason which may lead to create negative impact on
individual mental health (Iorfino et. al., (2022)). There can be various small reasons which are
not even countable as adults. These reason may include getting scolded by elders, not getting
chance to dance, not able to meet their friends and others which can have high negative mental
health impact on teenagers or young people.
There can be also some other reason like any trauma or any abuse or incident which has the
potential to change in their behaviour or can be fearful. Every individual should possess good
metal health that can be achieved through getting care from childhood that can enable them to
take care about the good health and can have high impact on individual behaviour and their
lifestyle.

Health issues and mental health
Mental illness includes bad mental health which also known as the health disorders which
may include wide range of health condition. These health condition may include depression,
mood swings, thinking, individual behaviour, anxiety disorder, depression, eating disorder,
schizophrenia, additive behaviour and many more. Health issues and mental health are
interrelated (Reaume et. al., (2021)).
When any individual face stress due to any reason that may lead to create negative health
impact on individual. Mental illness also leads to create risk of substance use and may lead to
create high risk of getting violent behaviour. People with mental illness can also lead to create
risk to harm other or self which should be taken in consideration to improve better and effective
role in getting better care. There are various issues related with mental health which can lead to
create high impact on individual behaviour and their lifestyle. These mental health issues may
include depression, eating disorder, personality disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder,
substance abuse disorder, psychotic disorder like schizophrenia.
Young people are highly exposed to mental illness. Young people are higher at risk of
facing mental illness due to various reasons during their life. They are very emotional at this time
and not having proper understanding to handle the situation and learning about how to react at
different situation may also lead to create mental health impact (Ridout et. al., (2018)).
Reason of mental illness
There is various reason of individual bad health which can lead to create high impact on
individual health. Mental health includes different reason which lead to create high impact of
individual which can lead to create negative health impact on individual. Individual may face
bad mental health which can be due to various reasons that may include stress, anxiety, trauma,
childhood abuse, any accident, neglect.
Young people face various issues in their life which can be family issue, love life
problems and others. This can negatively impact individual lifestyle and their behaviour which
includes various reasons like getting any trauma, childhood abuse, neglect, discrimination, social
isolation, stigma including racism. This is the one which can be there due to facing difficulty on
regular basis (Arslan et. al., (2021)).
There are some of the other causes which can lead to create bad mental health and create
mental illness. This may include social disadvantages, poverty, debt, severe or long-term stress,

having long-term physical health condition, any trauma, harassment, any fearful activity or
accident and many more.
Intervention
There are larger number of young people are facing mental health issues which need to
take in consideration and ensure about taking care through reducing the impact of mental illness
within young people. There is also need to take care about the effectiveness of the reason which
can cause and lead to mental health issues. In this, there is need to take some measures which can
be effective and allow to take care about the improve mental health (O'Connor et. al., (2021)).
There are some of the intervention which can help to deal with the problem of mental
health issues that may include cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), dialectical behaviour
therapy (DBT), psychotherapy, trauma therapy, dual diagnosis treatment, medication evaluation
and management.
There are also some of the intervention strategies which can be associated with reducing
mental health illness within young people. This may include social skill learning, meditation,
acceptance, commitment, interpersonal psychotherapy, training, resilience, forgiveness programs
and many more.
Young people may focus on their good physical health and should ensure about taking
balanced diet and take regular exercise. This can be helpful in reducing the risk of issues related
with mental health. They should also provide some time for entertainment, freedom to play
outdoor or indoor. There is also need to ensure about getting better self-care. There is need to
learn about dealing with stress and provide peace to mind (Jung et. al., (2020)).
Family should take care about diet plan and ensure about proper communication with
young people who are facing different physiological changes along with biological changes
which have also impact on their mental health. In such situation, there is need to ensure about
taking care about their changing behaviour and providing self-counselling and effectively
communicating with them can help to get better and effective response to avoid the risk of issues
related with mental health.
Therapy and medication can also help to young people with mental health illness. These
can be effective to reduce the negative health impact and help in dealing with better help to
reduce and mange disorder (Fung et. al., (2019)).

CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can have concluded that there are large number of young
people who are facing mental health related issues within their life. This may include depression,
anxiety, eating disorder, substance abuse and many more. There can be various reason behind
facing mental health issues within young people which should be taken in consideration and need
to use different strategy and intervention that can help to get better help in avoid the risk of
mental health issue and get over through effectively. In this, there is discussion about reason and
cause of mental health issues. There is also discussion about intervention of mental health issues
which can help to reduce the cases of mental health issues within young people.

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