Child Mental Illness Videos

Linking mental health indicators to promoting mental health in early life

The Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children - Dr Alan Cooklin

The Story of a Child's Path to Mental Illness

Understanding Mental Illness in Children

Voices Documentary: The Art of Children, Adolescents and Young Adults Touched by Mental Illness
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Linking mental health indicators to promoting mental health in early life
Harry Burns, chief medical officer for Scotland, talks about how the mental health indicators for children and young people can be used to promote mental health in early life. -
The Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children - Dr Alan Cooklin
This lecture will examine the impact of parental mental illness on children. There are 175,000 young carers of parents with mental illness in the UK but maybe as many as 1,000,000 children affected by an adult's mental illness. They worry about their parents and perhaps be blame themselves, or fear that they will also 'catch' it. They often fall through the professional net, are seen as nobody's responsibility and receive no help. -
The Story of a Child's Path to Mental Illness
The Story of a Child's Path to Mental Illness -
Understanding Mental Illness in Children
Watch "Understanding Mental Illness in Children" created by NAMI Minnesota and Twin Cities Public Television. -
Voices Documentary: The Art of Children, Adolescents and Young Adults Touched by Mental Illness
Youth living with a mental illness and their family members share their courageous stories of how they have been touched and changed as a result of mental illness. These individuals poignetly share how they are just like other adolescents and young adults in their longing for friendships, academic success and a hopeful and productive future.