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The importance of returning to school from SAMHSA leader
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30504
Subject(s) - harm , mental health , human services , limelight , welfare , psychology , pandemic , covid-19 , substance abuse , political science , medical education , criminology , public relations , medicine , psychiatry , law , social psychology , engineering , electrical engineering , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
As this issue went to press (mid‐September), schools were still deciding whether and how to open. During a week when more and more schools decided not to open up classes for this fall, concerns about the welfare of children isolated at home, without the benefit of their peers or teachers, mounted as well. Elinore McCance‐Katz, M.D., Ph.D., assistant secretary for mental health and substance abuse of the Department of Health and Human Services, opined in USA Today that not opening schools would harm the mental health of children. In the limelight due to many changes in substance use disorder treatment due to the pandemic, McCance‐Katz sided with President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in saying that ignoring these casualties would harm children more than the risks of COVID‐19. The schools should reopen, and parents should decide for themselves whether they want their children to attend, she writes.