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Debate: The impact of school closures and lockdown on mental health in young people
Author(s) -
Townsend Ellen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
child and adolescent mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1475-3588
pISSN - 1475-357X
DOI - 10.1111/camh.12428
Subject(s) - futures contract , mental health , covid-19 , pandemic , convention , political science , economic growth , psychology , criminology , psychiatry , medicine , business , law , economics , virology , disease , finance , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown response has had a disproportionate and damaging effect on the lives, mental health and well‐being of young people globally. They have been neglected in policy‐making and their needs have been subjugated to those of adults which contravenes the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Here, I argue that the needs and rights of young people must come first to protect their health, mental health and futures. If we do not do this, we will let down a generation of children who will bear the brunt of the fallout of the economic burden of the global COVID‐19 crisis.