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Global Child and Adolescent Mental Health Study

GCAMHS

The Global Child and Adolescent Mental Health Study (GCAMHS) group, is a network of mental health professionals, including both researchers and clinicians. The network was established in 2016 to respond to the need for collaborative research addressing timely and pressing questions in adolescent mental health in a cross-cultural, multi-site research setting. It includes mental health experts from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America and at the moment the network extends to 32 countries.

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About us
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Methodology
 GCAMHS members in Turku, Finland in 2023.
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News

Illustration on Cyberbullying.
11.6.2025
A new publication examines the relationship between cyberbullying victimization and suicide attempts among adolescents
A new GCAMHS research article has been published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The cross-national...
 Participants of the GCAMHS seminar.
22.3.2024
An international seminar discussed the effects of global crises on the mental health of children and adolescent
The mental health of children and adolescent is a current topic around the world, especially now, when the well-being of...