United Arab Emirates "National Happiness" Launches Youth Mental Health Seminar Series

During one of the seminars on youth mental health (at the source)

Dubai (Al Ittihad)

The National Program for Happiness and Quality of Life and the Federal Youth Foundation launched the Youth Mental Health Chain initiative as a joint venture of the two entities as part of the National Strategy for Quality of Life. Life 2031 launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai. God, whose goal is to promote good mental health at the individual level.
The Youth Mental Health Chain Initiative is working to create an interactive platform for youth, mental health professionals and professionals to work together to disseminate and adopt best practices and practices that promote good mental health for young people. The initiative will focus on a series of factors related to mental health, where a cycle of each of these factors will be allocated with the participation of specialists in the fields badociated with these factors.
This initiative focuses on youth as it is the most important age in the construction of personality and is linked to a number of important roles, including academic success, the beginning of a career and the formation of the family.
HE Awad Al Roumi, Minister of Happiness and Quality of Life and Executive Director of the Prime Minister's Office, chaired the first series of Youth Mental Health Workshops entitled "Social Communication and Mental Health". 39 "digital era", organized by the Ministry of the impossible. Indeed, the means of social communication are one of the factors influencing mental health in the digital age. Saeed Al-Nouri, director general of the Federal Foundation for Youth, more than 50 young men and women, a number of mental health experts and a group of specialists in the field of social communication attended the meeting.
"The improvement of mental health is one of the goals we are aiming for as part of the national strategy for the quality of life launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister. Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Sovereign of Dubai The cooperation between the National Program for Happiness and Quality of Life and the Federal Youth Foundation is focused on achieving this goal within the youth group, given the great impact of mental health on the role of young people, especially at the beginning of their careers and their families.
HE Shama Bint Suhail Al Mazrouei, Minister of State for Youth, welcomed the positive interaction of the National Program for Happiness and Quality of Life and the Ministry of the Impossible by hosting this seminar for youth, which highlights the great interest in youth and the constant effort to share their ideas and support them in any challenge they may face. To find practical solutions and innovative ideas.
His Excellency said: "We are working to create a young generation capable of investing in social media to serve the advancement of society, to promote the values ​​of origin and to contribute to the dissemination of the concepts of happiness, reflecting the health of users and pioneers of these platforms.
"We are proud of the UAE's influence on social media, which represents young role models who can influence their community in a constructive way," said Al Mazrouei. "We seek to support them as role models for their peers and to convey positive messages to society.
Participants in the first youth mental health seminars discussed the challenges social media poses to their mental health, including the ongoing search for social acceptance, which is a psychological burden that reduces self-confidence.
Others have pointed out that the effect is reflected in their mental health through excessive social comparisons of these means, which affects the feeling of satisfaction and the satisfaction of the individual. In addition to the loss of confidence in the external form and the electronic bullying.