Source: Junction News Client
"Children are always sullen and refuse to communicate." On the morning of October 9, Nanjing Brain Hospital held a free consultation activity on mental health on the morning of the 30th "Mental Health Day" in the world, and received nearly 200 consultations on the spot.
According to the "China Youth Development Report", there are 30 million people with emotional and behavioral disorders among minors under the age of 17 in China, of which the prevalence of psychological disorders in primary and secondary school students is 21.6% to 32.0%. According to a survey conducted by the China Mental Health Association in 22 provinces and cities across the country, about 16% of adolescents showed symptoms such as anxiety, compulsion and depression to varying degrees. "The Early Intervention Department of our hospital counted the age distribution of patients from September to December last year and found that about 70% of them were adolescent patients." Zhu Rongxin, chief physician of the Department of Early Intervention of Nanjing Brain Hospital, said that the theme of this year's World Mental Health Day is "The Heart of Youth, The Youth of Youth", and under this opportunity, it is necessary to pay more attention to the mental health problems of adolescents and improve their psychological adjustment ability.
"There are many kinds of psychological problems in adolescents, such as test anxiety, boredom, etc.; there are social interpersonal communication problems, such as school maladaptation, truancy, etc.; there are also obsessive-compulsive, depression, self-harm, Internet addiction and other phenomena." Zhu Rongxin said that the psychological problems of adolescents are often emotional problems, which are manifested as low emotions and extremes. The earlier the adolescent mental illness is treated, the more effective the intervention and the better the recovery. "For mental health problems, it is not only possible to rely on psychological counseling or psychological treatment to solve, psychological problems rely on psychological methods to solve is often not enough, but also need to prescribe the right medicine." Zhu Rongxin explained that the causes of adolescent psychological problems are mostly complex and diverse, in addition to the influence of environmental factors such as social and family, it may also be related to biological factors during adolescent growth, the impact of environmental factors may be short-term or long-term, and the impact time may be long-term or short-term. Therefore, in the treatment, it is first necessary to evaluate the psychological problem, and then develop a personalized intervention strategy based on the assessment. "It's the important 'no assessment, no help' in psychology!" Zhu Rongxin stressed.
Zhu Rongxin said that during the epidemic, adolescent mental health problems have indeed ushered in a short-term "small peak". Children take online classes at home, the original rhythm of life is disrupted, coupled with the long time of contact with electronic products, the low efficiency of online classes and other reasons, may bring about learning anxiety, autism and other mental health problems. "Children need an independent and quiet environment for online classes, they often shut themselves in a room alone, how about online classes? What is the status of the child? Many parents don't know. Zhu Rongxin said. But at the same time, he also encouraged parents not to be too anxious, to think from another perspective, it is precisely because the epidemic has given parents and children more opportunities to contact at home, which is conducive to parents' observation of their children. How to establish an effective adolescent mental health early warning system has become an urgent problem to be solved. Zhu Rongxin hopes that through the combination of highly sensitive screening tools and some information-based means, the dynamic assessment of the psychological state of adolescents will be carried out regularly, and psychological files will be established to find problems in a timely manner. "Under the premise of protecting the privacy of adolescents, we should share information on psychological files at different levels of intervention personnel, so that families, schools, and communities can participate in the prevention and control system of adolescent psychological problems." Zhu Rongxin said. "It's a very idealized state, and it's also very necessary." Zhu Rongxin explained that because adolescents start at the age of 12, the cerebral cortex has entered a rapid development process, neuroplasticity is very high, adolescents in this period are very susceptible to some external environmental factors, and various interventions can also reverse the pathological state of some mental illnesses. "Forming a closed-loop service network - screening problems - solving problems" Zhu Rongxin said, the ultimate goal of all these efforts is to allow society to better accept children with mental health problems, but also to help these children return to society as soon as possible. Xinhua Daily and Intersection reporter Jiang Mingrui intern Wang Kunpeng
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