The Psychological Stress Affecting Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing |Biomedgrid

This brief provides a high-level overview of the current status of youth mental health globally and in Aotearoa New Zealand. There is a growing global youth mental health pandemic that has seen a rapid rise over several years in mental morbidity and frequency of psychological distress among children and young people and this has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic [1].