Support for screening teens is increasing along with recognition of the role mental-health checkups can play in improving adolescent health.
"We are refreshing training on adolescent health, " he said.
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He said he would also be asking both adult and adolescent mental health services to review their urgent referral procedures.
Deputy Andrew Le Lievre said about 400 children were referred to the child and adolescent mental health service in 2012, on average 34 a month.
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) has seen a rise in accepted referrals in Guernsey of 36%, according to its latest annual report.
It said said there had been a high number of inappropriate referrals in the area of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, and insufficient use of early intervention.
"You need to have a look at what's going on in the family, which is how the child and adolescent mental health system works, " she said.
If you suspect your child has a conduct disorder then talk things through with your GP who may advise an assessment by the specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).
The authors of the study, led by Dr Elena Compan Paveda, wrote that sharing daily meals is a unifying ritual that promotes adolescent mental health, and which could compensate for other factors that might serve to distance family members, acting as a self regulating mechanism for family life.
In a 2008 Yale University report published in the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, researchers analyzed 37 studies that examined bullying and suicide among children and adolescents.
The numbers may reflect that while most people have heard of the pill and condoms, they have never been taught how to use the pill or where to get it, or how to put on a condom, said Dr. Yolanda Wimberly, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at the Morehouse School of Medicine and an adolescent medicine specialist with Grady Health Systems in Atlanta, Georgia.
They say the high rates emphasise the need to treat adolescent suicide as a major public health problem requiring urgent intervention.
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Cyberbullying, which has received the most attention of late, may represent a particularly insidious form of abuse, partly because it can occur anywhere and anytime, says Dr. Victor Fornari, the director of child and adolescent psychiatry at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, in New Hyde Park, New York.
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