Abstract:
As the world continues to experience unprecedented impact of covid-19 pandemic, there is an exceptional increase in adolescent mental health problems cutting across all ages, due to anxiety, fear, social restrictions uncertainty and emotional distance. However, these young people' mental health is at risk. Mental health is an integral part of health and wellbeing, yet it has been neglected in Nigeria as over 60 million Nigerians have one form of mental disorder or the other with only about 20 percent seen to have the obvious form of it which the ordinary Nigerian refers to as madness. Psycho education has been found to be very effective in reducing and improving adolescent psychiatric problems. This form of intervention is important and should be introduced into school curriculum.
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