Mental health in Ireland: ‘Should we not be helping people before they get down to the breakdown stage?’
Generational health: Support services ‘are well hidden and the services are already under pressure’
Child anxiety
Which TV shows are good for kids?: ‘If they watch something like Cocomelon, it drives them mental’
Summertime is stressful for parents but is your television an acceptable form of babysitting? Are some programmes more suitable than others or do we overestimate their educational or damaging effects?
Rickets, anaemia, scabies: homeless children in Ireland suffering malnutrition effects associated with poorer countries
Specialist fears ‘society is numb’ to child homelessness as it reaches record levels
‘When you are dealing with a mental health issue in the home, you drop out of society in some ways’
Families whose children are under the care of Camhs are seeking improvements to services
Mental health services must be prised from grip of psychiatry
Mac MacLachlan: Our mental health services have not evolved to reflect what we know about mental health
Why homework has merit and can be a force for good
The brouhaha about the need to abolish school homework, as if it was a recently invented form of cruelty to children, needs perspective and reasoned discussion
‘How is it possible to be in a mental health service that makes your mental health worse?’
Psychiatrists and parents ‘frustrated and disappointed’ with youth mental health service
‘Children are suffering and getting worse’: Principals’ alarm at rise of anxiety among primary schoolchildren
School leaders say mental health problems have ‘escalated’ since the pandemic
Breda O’Brien: Why are today’s children so full of anxiety?
Parents tend to blame themselves for their kids’ emotional troubles but, mostly, they are wrong: the problem is a much wider one
Children who refuse to go to school: ‘We see young people with mental health issues, from all social classes’
More young people with anxiety are avoiding school. Can the system do more to help?
‘My 12-year-old gets stressed and worried at bedtime and can’t sleep’
Ask the Expert: ‘It is very upsetting to see him like this, it almost feels like he has returned to being a toddler’
‘Our son has severe social anxiety, but my husband and I don’t seem to be on the same page’
Ask the Expert: ‘I’m worn out looking out for my son and dealing with my husband’s frustration over missing school’
How do I spot if my child has . . . an anxiety disorder?
Anxiety is a normal emotion but can become problematic. Here is what to look out for
My daughter won’t go out to meet friends after lockdown
Try to understand her perspective and what might be behind her social reluctance
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