Child Mental Illness

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.

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

Watch "Understanding Mental Illness in Children" created by NAMI Minnesota and Twin Cities Public Television.

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.