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AAP, AACAP, and CHA call for attention to pediatric mental health during COVID‐19 and around racial injustice
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30634
Subject(s) - declaration , injustice , covid-19 , racism , mental health , pandemic , psychiatry , psychology , medicine , political science , social psychology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , pathology , virology , outbreak
In October, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children's Hospital Association called for urgent attention to child and adolescent mental health during COVID‐19, noting that children and families “have experienced enormous adversity and disruption.” The pandemic has compounded problems of “the inequities that result from structural racism” which has disproportionately affected children from communities of color, according to the declaration from the three organizations.