September 11th, 2017

Why did we set up Calm Teen?
Teenagers need to be able to relax.  They need to have strategies and skills to deal with stress. Developing their own self-care 'toolkit' will help them survive our modern fast paced lives.​

• 10% of children and young people (aged 5-16 years) have a clinically diagnosable mental problem (that is about 3 children in every class), yet 70% of children and adolescents who experience mental health problems have not had appropriate interventions at a sufficiently early age. Green,H., Mcginnity, A., Meltzer, Ford, T., Goodman,R. 2005 Mental Health of Children and Young People in Great Britain: 2004. Office for National Statistics. Children’s Society (2008) The Good Childhood Inquiry: health research evidence. London: Children’s Society.​
• 20% of adolescents may experience a mental health problem in any given year. WHO (2003). Caring for children and adolescents with mental disorders: Setting WHO directions. [online] Geneva: World Health Organization. Available at: http://www.who.int/mental_health/media/en/785.pdf [Accessed 14 Sep. 2015].
• 50% of mental health problems are established by age 14 and 75% by age 24. Kessler RC, Berglund P, Demler O, Jin R, Merikangas KR, Walters EE. (2005). Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62 (6) pp. 593-602. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.62.6.593.
• More than half of all adults with mental health problems were diagnosed in childhood. Less than half were treated appropriately at the time.
• 69% of young people have witnessed somebody else being bullied, 43% of which see it at least once a week.
• Over the past two years, we have seen a 70 per cent increase in the number of reported cases of self-harm in British 10 to 14 year-olds.
• There has been a staggering 106 per cent increase in the number of children and young people presenting at A & E with a psychiatric condition since 2009