More than 24% of children aged 5-17 in Afghanistan encounter mental health problems, as reported in the Samaa News.
A previous UNICEF statement has unveiled rising cognitive health problems among children in Afghanistan. “More than 24% of children aged 5-17 in the country are experiencing various mental health issues, with approximately 15% suffering from severe depression,” according to the stat.
The stat recognized many key points causing this problem, including:
– Continuing controversy and no-protection
– Family expulsion
– Natural catastrophes
– Deprivation
– Limitations on girls’ schooling
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UNICEF reports that “The lack of effective solutions for health and education problems is also a significant factor in the increasing mental stress among Afghan children.”
The recent three years have observed Afghan children encounter different mental and expressive crises, with girls potentially more being violated than boys. The stat mentions that permitting schooling for girls has evolved especially problematic, while boys encounter severe problems regarding deprivation and poverty.
Mental health specialists have stated serious matters about the contemporary cases’s influence on Afghan children’s cognitive fitness and disposition growth.
The UNICEF stats put focus on the instant aid for discoursing these cognitive fitness trials among Afghan children.
Published in The Samaa News
