Emerging Minds: Action for Child Mental Health

大约十分之一的儿童和青少年有可诊断的心理健康问题。儿童和青少年时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，并有可能导致成年后出现持续的心理健康问题。因此，最近有影响的政策文件（包括《展望未来》、《精神健康五年展望》、《转变儿童和青少年的精神健康状况：绿皮书》）强调必须优先促进良好的精神健康，预防和早期干预儿童和青少年的精神健康问题。我们的愿景是在20年内将患有精神健康问题的儿童和青少年的人数减半。实现这一宏伟目标的最佳途径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业知识，建立最佳途径，使这项研究能够惠及大量儿童、年轻人和家庭。在促进心理健康方面，研究已经确定了儿童和青少年心理健康问题出现和持续存在的可靠预测因素。然而，在落实这方面的知识以促进儿童和青年的良好心理健康和预防心理健康问题方面，仍存在相当大的挑战，包括与耻辱和缺乏可持续和可扩展的提供方法有关的障碍。在早期干预方面，儿童和青少年心理健康研究在制定针对常见心理健康问题的有效干预措施方面也取得了成功，但只有少数有心理健康问题的儿童和青少年得到了有效的支持。此外，即使儿童达到转诊到专门精神卫生服务机构的门槛，他们也经常在获得护理方面经历长时间的拖延。该网络将促进新的研究，以扩大在各种环境中有效促进精神卫生、预防和早期干预精神卫生问题的范围。我们将汇集来自卫生研究、艺术、设计、人文和物理科学学科的学者，以便根据对诸如使健康信息“根深蒂固”的原因（医学史、设计理论、设计历史）的理解，制定由利益攸关方主导的创造性、可持续的解决方案；在何处、以何种形式以及如何以维持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相关者，包括具有相关生活经验的儿童、青年和护理人员、第三部门合作伙伴、从业者、政策制定者、遗产专业人员和工业合作伙伴。这将确保研究反映潜在受益者的需要和当前的实际和政策情况，并确保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.