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New WHO "Guidelines on mental health promotive & preventive interventions for adolescents" out

In WHO own words "The Guidelines on promotive and preventive mental health interventions for adolescents - Helping Adolescents thrive (HAT), provide evidence-informed recommendations on psychosocial interventions to promote mental health, prevent mental disorders, and reduce self-harm and other risk behaviours among adolescents."

We salute this important document with enthusiasm, and invite everyone to give it the visibility and publicity its aims deserve. If you haven't yet, download from here

It is however slightly discouraging to see that, yet again, exercise and physical activity promotion are basically ignored (except for a few episodic references to preexisting guidelines)... this, despite the ever growing evidences of the bidirectional relationships existing between exercise and mental health... we need to do better and lobby for recognition in International guidelines and policy making.

To get started, here is some recommended reading material:


If you believe we have missed out on essential literature, or have any comment, we would love to hear from you and will update this post accordingly (crediting you for the suggestion ;) ). So offer us feedback in the comments below, or visiting our webpages

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