Emerging Minds: Action for Child Mental Health

大约十分之一的儿童和年轻人有可诊断的心理健康问题。儿童和青春期的心理健康问题会带来严重的情感、社会和教育方面的不利影响，并为成年后持续存在的心理健康问题带来风险。因此，近期有影响力的政策文件(包括《展望未来》、《精神健康五年展望》、《儿童与青少年精神健康服务：绿皮书》)都强调有必要优先促进良好的精神健康，预防儿童和青少年的精神健康问题，并对其进行早期干预。我们的愿景是在20年内将经历精神健康问题的儿童和青少年人数减半。实现这一宏伟目标的最佳方式是充分利用发展精神病理学研究中已知的知识，并借鉴其他学科的知识和专长，以确定使这项研究能够惠及大量儿童、青年和家庭并使其受益的最佳方法。在促进心理健康方面，研究已经确定了儿童和年轻人心理健康问题出现和持续存在的强有力的预测因素。然而，在落实这一知识以促进儿童和青年的良好心理健康和预防心理健康困难方面仍然存在相当大的挑战，包括与耻辱有关的障碍以及缺乏可持续和可推广的分娩方法。在早期干预方面，儿童和青少年心理健康研究也成功地制定了针对常见心理健康问题的有效干预措施，但只有少数有精神健康问题的儿童和青年得到了有效支持。此外，即使儿童达到了转诊到专业精神卫生服务的门槛，他们在获得护理方面也经常经历长时间的延误。该网络将促进新的研究，以扩大有效促进精神健康的影响范围，并在各种环境中预防和早期干预精神健康问题。我们将汇集来自健康研究、艺术、设计、人文和物理科学学科的学者，以开发由利益相关者主导的创造性、可持续的解决方案，这些解决方案的基础是，例如，是什么让健康信息“坚定不移”(医学史、设计理论、设计史)；在哪里、以什么格式以及如何以维护信任和安全的方式大规模呈现信息和干预措施(媒体、社会学、信息设计、计算机科学)。该网络将包括广泛的利益攸关方，包括儿童、年轻人和有相关生活经验的照料者、第三部门合作伙伴、从业人员、政策制定者、遗产专业人员和产业合作伙伴。这将确保研究反映潜在受益者的需要以及当前的实际和政策背景，并制定可扩展和可持续的解决办法，以促进广泛传播。

Approximately one in ten children and young people have a diagnosable mental health problem. Mental health problems in childhood and adolescence bring significant emotional, social, and educational disadvantage and present a risk for ongoing mental health problems in adulthood. As such, recent influential policy documents (including Future in Mind, The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, Transforming children and young people's mental health provision: A green paper) highlight the need to prioritise the promotion of good mental health and the prevention of and early intervention for mental health difficulties in children and young peopleOur vision is to see the number of children and young people who experience mental health problems halved within 20 years. The best way to meet this ambitious goal is to make full use of what is already known from developmental psychopathology research and to draw on knowledge and expertise from other disciplines to establish the best ways to enable this research to reach and benefit large numbers of children, young people and families. In terms of mental health promotion, research has identified robust predictors of the emergence and persistence of mental health problems in children and young people. However, considerable challenges remain in the implementation of this knowledge to promote good mental health and prevent mental health difficulties among children and young people, including barriers associated with stigma and a lack of sustainable and scalable methods of delivery.In terms of early intervention, child and adolescent mental health research has also had success in the development of effective interventions for common mental health problems, however only a small minority of children and young people with mental health conditions receive effective support. Furthermore, even where children meet thresholds for referral to specialist mental health services, they frequently experience long delays in accessing care. This Network will facilitate novel research to increase the reach of effective mental health promotion, and prevention of and early intervention for mental health problems across a range of settings. We will bring together academics from health research, arts, design, humanities and physical science disciplines in order to develop creative, sustainable stakeholder-led solutions based on an understanding of, for example, what has made health messages 'stick' (medical history, design theory, history of design); where, in what format and how to present information and interventions at scale in ways that maintain trust and security (media, sociology, information design, computer science). The Network will include a broad range of stakeholders, including children, young people and carers with relevant lived experience, third sector partners, practitioners, policy makers, heritage professionals and industrial partners. This will ensure that the research reflects the needs of potential beneficiaries and the current practical and policy context and that solutions are developed that are scalable and sustainable to promote widespread dissemination.