Aug 17, 2019, Scotland National Journal: Edinburgh University academic describes mental health solutions https://www.thenational.scot/news/17844272.edinburgh-university-academic-describes-mental-health-solutions/ YOUNG people should be encouraged to fight back against society’s “problem addiction” and instead be taught solution-based techniques, according to an Edinburgh-based academic, therapist and life coach. Rayya Ghul, an internationally renowned “solution-focused practitioner” at Edinburgh University, is delivering the Are You a Problem Addict? event on Monday as part of the Edinburgh Fringe at the Stand’s New Town theatre…. The number of people being treated for mental health issues has been consistently rising in recent years, leading to concerns about the need to address wellbeing in a sustainable way. Young people are particularly affected with long waiting lists for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), and record numbers of students and school pupils approaching counsellors for help. Ghul claims that teaching the solution-based talking and thinking techniques in schools could help empower young people to take control of their own issues and feel more able to cope without professional input. She would also like to see the solution-based techniques “normalised” in society and taught in community centres and other settings…. Toni Giugliano, Scottish policy manager for the Mental Health Foundation, said it welcomed calls to better help young people better manage their mental health. The charity is currently campaigning for Scotland to adopt mental health education, which is already delivered in England. “Wellbeing for young people at school is just as important as numerously or literacy. It’s about getting our kids to think about how to deal with the big issues in their lives. They are under so much pressure – to get the right job, the right relationship the perfect body and then you add social media into that mix. We need wellbeing and mental health to be part of the curriculum and to train our teachers to deliver it.
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
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What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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