Mental health organisations challenge the language of illness and disorder
Following the recent NHS report that found that 1 in 8 children have a ‘mental disorder’, mental health organisations A Disorder For Everyone and Safely Held Spaces issued a joint Press Release.
We suggest that this very real emotional distress can be explained differently, ie – as an understandable response to experience and that labelling children and young people as ’mentally ill’ with diagnoses that are not scientifically valid constructs is often very unhelpful.
Read the full Press Release here.
Watch a video interview with Consultant clinical psychologist Dr Lucy Johnstone here.
