Factors impacting early legal advice and mental health

As we move throughout life, many individual, social and structural determinants may interact together to help or hinder our mental health and push us along the mental health continuum.

For example, individual psychological and biological factors—emotional skills, substance use and genetics—can increase susceptibility to mental health problems.

Being subjected to adverse social, economic, geopolitical and environmental conditions – for example poverty, violence, inequality and environmental degradation or dearth – also heightens the vulnerability of individuals to mental illnesses.

While risks present at any point during the life course are unhelpful, those arising during developmentally sensitive periods, particularly early childhood, pay steep dividends. Harsh parenting and physical punishment, for instance, are well?known underminers of child health; This makes bullying one of the main risk factors