Experts are concerned that school closures caused by COVID-19 may affect the mental health of our children, especially teenagers and young adults. According to Axios, hospitals have experienced a sharp increase in mental health emergencies.
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These days it seems the news is inundated with increasingly dire projections about how much longer our daily lives will be disrupted as public health officials struggle to get a handle on the global COVID-19 pandemic.
A blip of hope has emerged, though, as most school districts across the country are now on track to return to some version of in-person learning. This news is considered long overdue and welcomed with open arms by weary parents, most of whom found themselves required to suddenly become part-time teachers in addition to their full-time careers.
The only population possibly more excited about the return to the classroom and a sense of normalcy than the parents is the students themselves.
(The Center Square) – Children and young adults are experiencing increased mental health issues, and suicide also is on the rise within the age group at least in part because