Helen Coughlan

TL;DR: Evidence that several countries are now engaged in transformation of youth mental health services and in evaluation of these initiatives is reported, showing progress in the field of early intervention in psychotic disorders, research in deficiencies in the current system and social advocacy.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis confirms that PEs are prevalent in childhood and adolescent community samples and are associated with a variety of mental disorders beyond psychotic disorders.

TL;DR: Evidence for the association between trauma experienced in childhood or adolescence, and the subsequent experience of affective or psychotic mental disorders in adulthood, is reviewed.

TL;DR: Young people with psychotic experiences have poorer global functioning than those who do not, even when compared with other young people with psychopathology (but who does not report psychotic experiences), and should alert treating clinicians that the individual may have significantly more functional disability than suggested by the psychopathological diagnosis alone.

TL;DR: In an era when the physi-cal health of young people has never been better, they are vulnerable to developing potentially intractable and enduring mental health difficulties with the inevitable per-sonal, familial, social and vocational consequencesthat accompany the experience of mental ill-health.