Overview
This overview provides a synopsis of the current knowledge base. Having considered all the information, we make sense of it by taking a stab at the following: 1) What are the priority issues that deserve attention, 2) What are opportunity areas that community or voluntary organisations can already take action on, and 3) What knowledge gaps deserve further investigation?
Priority Issues
Actionable Opportunity Areas
Knowledge Gaps
Definitions
Definition of Youth
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- According to the National Youth Council, youths are categorised as those between 15 to 35 years old in Singapore. Globally, youth mental health researchers tend to categorise youths as those between 16 to 24 years old.
Definition of Mental Health
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Statistics & Figures
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- According to international research, 1 in 5 of youths globally will encounter a mental health issue.
- According to the Singapore Mental Health Study 2010, 2 in 3 do not seek help. While the ratio might be lesser for youths, given greater awareness of support services and increased normalisation of help-seeking facilitated by national level anti-stigma campaigns like the Beyond The Label campaign, the treatment gap and years lost to disability by duration of untreated mental illness continues to be significant, especially given that our people are our only resource.
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Resource Directory
Samaritans of Singapore (SOS)
https://sos.org.sg/
SAMH Youth Reach
Tiong Bahru
Our Student Dialogues (2020)
Publication by ground-up initiative and Singapore's largest online student and Reddit community SGExams which discusses the impact of Singapore's education system on mental health among students, among other matters. The book is novel for its analysis of website and reddit inputs from the student community.