YAMH – Youth Mental Health at School

It’s reported that 50% of mental health problems in adulthood have their onset before or during adolescence.

Youth Mental Health Challenges
Overall population

YAMH’s aim is to support School teachers and Youth Workers to promote and protect Youth Mental Health through the innovative life-skills approach, endorsed by the WHO, to:

1

Raise awareness of key mental health issues and disorder’s early signs (mechanism of mental illness, prevalence, onset age, risk factors, treatability, and possibility of recovery)

2

Combat the stigma of mental health disorders enhancing help-seeking

Contribute to building up resilience at schools addressing the (a) social and interpersonal skills (communication, refusal skills, assertiveness, and empathy), (b) cognitive skills (decision making, critical thinking and self-evaluation) and (c) emotional coping skills (stress management, anger management and self-control).

Special Focus on School teachers and Youth Workers

The vastly experienced YAMH partnership will equip Teachers and Youth Workers to be a positive role model and a figure prepared to guide their pupils through the challenges, choices, and responsibilities of adulthood. This will be done through a Training Curriculum, an Online Platform of Open Educational Resources and a set of Guidelines and Recommendations on the promotion and protection of Youth Mental Health at School.

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