Human Growth and Development / Unit 9 HGD 1214 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Adolescent Mental Health
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The idea
About half of US adolescents meet criteria for a mental disorder by eighteen, and about a third for an anxiety disorder, in a national survey.
In practice
Rates rising from about forty-five percent at thirteen to fourteen to about fifty-seven at seventeen to eighteen.
Where people slip
These are lifetime prevalences, not rates at one moment; substance use and mental illness often co-occur.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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