Adolescent mental health during COVID-19

• #HealthyAtHome - Mental health
  Produced by: WHO
  This resource provides key messages on how to take care of mental health during lockdown.
• The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of adolescents and youth
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This resource provides insights on the context of mental health among adolescents and ways by which they can cope and distract themselves during lockdown.
• How teenagers can protect their mental health during COVID-19
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This resource provides key messages related to addressing mental health during lockdown.
• A joint statement on early childhood development and COVID-19: A call for coordinated action to protect and support ALL young children and their caregivers
  Produced by: Early Childhood Development Action Network
  Key messages on an action plan to protect and ensure essential services for the youth and their caregivers.
• UN leads call to protect most vulnerable from mental health crisis during and after COVID-19
  Produced by: UN
  This article provides key messages on mental health protection during the pandemic.
• What to do if you’re anxious about coronavirus
  Produced by: YoungMinds
  This resource promotes good mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: what to do when adolescents feel anxious
• Too young to be stressed: Adolescent mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic
  Produced by: University of Chicago Medicine
  This resource explains ways by which adolescents can protect their mental health during the pandemic
• How COVID-19 is affecting teens’ mental health
  Produced by: The Council on Recovery
  These key messages provide an insight on how to help teenagers overcome stress during this tough time: counseling, meditation, evidence-based resources.
• Mental health and teenagers: how COVID-19 can affect the young mind
  Produced by: Newton Medical Center
  These key messages provide an insight on how to help teenagers overcome stress during this tough time: limiting news intake, telling them it is okay to be stressed out.
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) parenting
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This resource focuses on the importance of supporting teenagers during the pandemic (page 5)

• Policy Brief: COVID-19 And the need for action on mental health
  Produced by: UN
  This guidance presents action plans on promoting and ensuring mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Produced by: UN This guidance presents action plans on promoting and ensuring mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Produced by: IASC
  This guidance presents action plans on maintaining psychological support and mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Guidelines on mental health promotive and preventive interventions for adolescents
  Produced by: WHO
  This resource provides guidance on preventive and promotive measures for adolescents regarding mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Mental health and psychosocial considerations during the COVID-19 outbreak
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance provides messages for the general public on how to cope with the covid-19 pandemic
• Maintaining essential health services: operational guidance for the COVID-19 context
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance promotes action plans to address maternal and adolescent mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic (page 27)
• Clinical management of COVID-19
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance document focuses on the importance of a constant provision of mental health services and psychosocial support for COVID-19 patients. (Page 35)
• Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: Interim guidance
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance includes practical recommendations for decision makers to help keep communities and health workers safe, to sustain essential services at the community level, including mental health services, and to ensure an effective response to COVID-19. (page 21)
• Addressing the COVID-19 Crisis’s Indirect Health Impacts for Women and Girls
  Produced by: Centre for Global Development

• Video: Q&A on COVID-19 and mental health -- #askWHO -- with WHO's Aiysha Malik
  Produced by: WHO
  This recorded video of a Q&A focuses on mental health during COVID-19 and adjustment and coping mechanisms with this new normal without feeling isolated

• Addressing the mental health needs of vulnerable populations in the COVID-19 response in the WHO European Region
  Produced by: WHO EUROPE
  Factsheet addressing the mental health needs of vulnerable populations in the COVID-19 response in the WHO European Region.

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