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Providing mental health services within schools: A post‐pandemic imperative
Author(s) -
Walters Anne S.
Publication year - 2021
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.30550
Subject(s) - mental health , pandemic , stressor , psychology , covid-19 , suicide rates , emergency department , psychiatry , medical emergency , medicine , suicide prevention , poison control , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Recent research suggests a mental health crisis for our youth of startling proportions, likely related to the stressors of the pandemic. Rates of suicidal thinking and behavior are up by 25% or more from similar periods in 2019 (Hill et al., 2020). And although emergency department (ED) visits were down in the first few months of the pandemic, the rate of children and adolescents boarding in the ED, waiting for a mental health bed, has also increased by 25%–31% (Lee et al., 2020).