Abigail Ampofo, interim chief executive at YoungMinds, said: \u201cThese alarming figures highlight the sheer scale of the mental health emergency.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile waiting lists for the treatment of physical health problems are going down, the time young people are spending trying to access specialist support for their mental health continues to rise.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo many pressures are harming young people\u2019s mental health, including academic demands, rising living costs and inequality.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need more investment in mental health services, but we also need to tackle these root causes of poor mental health.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe announcement that a cross-government mental health strategy is to be developed is welcome but, with a record number of young people being referred for support, we can\u2019t wait until that strategy is in place to turn things around. We need both a long-term plan and urgent action.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is estimated that around a fifth of eight to 25-year-olds have mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abigail Ampofo, interim chief executive at YoungMinds, said: \u201cThese alarming figures highlight the sheer scale of the mental…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1061,52497,134,554,229962,555,111,43,139,229961,69,1177],"class_list":["post-451868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-children","tag-childrens-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-emergency","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nhs-national-health-service","tag-nz","tag-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}