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Which of the following statements best reflects the policy stance emerging from recent institutional assessments on adolescent mental health in India?
- 1Mental health outcomes in adolescents can be sustainably improved without expanding the trained mental health workforce, relying primarily on short-term corporate awareness campaigns.
- 2Excessive screen exposure directly causes neurodevelopmental disorders such as congenital ADHD, necessitating punitive institutional digital bans for adolescents.
- 3Preventive, school-linked, and community-based mental health interventions, complemented by tele-mental health and teacher training, are essential to address rising adolescent mental health challenges.✓
- 4The National Mental Health Programme is exclusively confined to tertiary psychiatric hospitals and explicitly bars school-based counseling interventions.
Correct answer
Preventive, school-linked, and community-based mental health interventions, complemented by tele-mental health and teacher training, are essential to address rising adolescent mental health challenges.
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