Editorial: The debate around over-pathologising young people's mental health.

IF 6.8 3区医学 Q1 PEDIATRICS

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Pub Date : 2025-07-14 DOI:10.1111/camh.70024

Lina Gega, Amy McCulloch, Eilis Kennedy

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Abstract

Five articles in this issue's debate discuss whether we over-pathologise young people's mental health. The articles highlight the paradox between inflating diagnoses in the community and under-recognising mental health needs in health and social care settings. Co-production with young people and their families when developing services, community-based initiatives, and research projects is an important method for getting the balance right between increasing awareness and offering support for mental health problems at the earliest possible opportunity, without misinterpreting and mislabelling as 'mental illness' the emotions and behaviours of young people in response to challenging or changing life circumstances.

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社论：关于过度病态化年轻人心理健康的争论。

本期辩论中的五篇文章讨论了我们是否过度病态化了年轻人的心理健康。这些文章强调了在社区中夸大诊断和在健康和社会护理机构中对心理健康需求认识不足之间的矛盾。在制定服务、社区倡议和研究项目时，与青年及其家庭合作是一种重要的方法，可以在尽早提高对精神卫生问题的认识和提供支持之间取得正确的平衡，而不会误解和错误地将青年在应对具有挑战性或不断变化的生活环境时的情绪和行为贴上“精神疾病”的标签。

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health PEDIATRICS-PSYCHIATRY

CiteScore

8.30

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3.30%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) publishes high quality, peer-reviewed child and adolescent mental health services research of relevance to academics, clinicians and commissioners internationally. The journal''s principal aim is to foster evidence-based clinical practice and clinically orientated research among clinicians and health services researchers working with children and adolescents, parents and their families in relation to or with a particular interest in mental health. CAMH publishes reviews, original articles, and pilot reports of innovative approaches, interventions, clinical methods and service developments. The journal has regular sections on Measurement Issues, Innovations in Practice, Global Child Mental Health and Humanities. All published papers should be of direct relevance to mental health practitioners and clearly draw out clinical implications for the field.