The Mental Health of Adolescents is in Crisis

  The mental health of adolescents is in crisis. This is demonstrated by recent figures, which claim that suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among young people between the ages of 15 and 19. Furthermore, one in seven young people between the ages of ten and 19 suffers from some type of mental disorder. In fact, 14 percent of adolescents in this age group suffer from some kind of mental disorder. It means that 86 million adolescents between the ages of 15 and 19 and 80 million adolescents between the ages of ten and 14 suffer from this…