The media should be encouraged to show young people with mental health problems in a positive light. Young offender institutions should improve access to mental health services. And young people should be offered mental health services in non-clinical settings. These are recommendations from the British Medical Association's report last week, Child and adolescent mental health, A guide for health professionals, which showed 12.6 per cent of 11- to 16-year-old boys and 10.3 per cent of girls in the UK have a mental health disorder.
Sir Charles George, chairman of the BMA's Board of Science, said: "Research shows that of those with mental health problems at the age of 26, half had met criteria for a disorder by age 15."
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