Anna Sydor

Dec 10, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Anna Sydor |Rhiannon Lane |Nicola Evans

1 Background In the United Kingdom and internationally, levels of mental health problems in adolescents and young people (YP) have been rising, with recent estimates suggesting that one in five children (17.4%) aged 6–19 have children a diagnosable mental health problem in the United Kingdom (NHS England 2023). Internationally, 8.8% of children have been diagnosed with a mental illness (Piao et al. 2022) and many more experience symptoms without diagnosis.