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Every article we have published on Adolescent Mental Health, newest first.
A Global Burden of Disease 2023 analysis of 31 countries finds the burden climbing, peaking in early adolescence and heavier in women, with population growth the single biggest driver.
Anxiety disorders in young people are treatable. In the largest trial, combining CBT with an SSRI worked best, and both beat placebo. Talking therapy alone also clearly outperforms no treatment.
Restrictive English schools cut phone use during the school day but not overall — and teenagers' wellbeing was no better than at schools that allow phones. What tracks with worse mental health is heavy, problematic use.
In the largest trial, combining fluoxetine with talking therapy helped most, and both worked better than placebo. A later network analysis found only fluoxetine, alone or with therapy, clearly beat placebo.
A subculture built on ranking faces sits directly on top of a recognised, treatable mental illness. The distress, not the jawline, is the part the evidence says to take seriously.
Among 383 dialysis patients, 83.6% screened for moderate-to-extreme anxiety and 58% for PTSD; a separate study of 250 displaced adolescents found trauma exposure tracking closely with post-traumatic symptoms.
A survey of seven countries found the youth mental health app market dominated by paid journaling and meditation apps. The AI-powered ones show early promise on symptoms — and none had checked for harm.
A 422-family cohort with a pre-ban baseline is the closest thing to a controlled test the world has. Researchers are also warning the law will make studying adolescents harder — including studying this.
A secondary analysis of 8,376 adolescents built two models to predict who benefits from school-based mindfulness training. Both found a subgroup — and the difference in outcomes was trivial.
Australian teenagers harmed by the Black Summer fires showed no elevated depression, anxiety, distress, insomnia or suicidality two years later. The result runs against a systematic review published months earlier.
An Australian cohort of 3,044 children found no protective factor held across all ages and outcomes. School safety mattered at age 6-7; belonging mattered at 12-13.