Pressure on pupils as stress levels are growing [Independent.ie]
- Published: 06 April 2010
HALF of all 15-17-year-old students experience moderate to severe stress, an alarming new study reveals.
The poll of 1,400 secondary students across the country has painted a worrying picture of the mental pressures pupils are feeling in schools.
It reveals higher levels of eating disorders, body-image problems, self-harming, alcohol and substance abuse among young people.
"Many of these worrying conditions develop in slavish imitation of some of the less-worthy aspects of a media-obsessed worldwide celebrity culture," Dr Mike Power, project leader with the Mater child and adolescent mental health service, told the Irish Independent.
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