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Note: APPs is an abbreviation of advanced practice providers. Increase in Mental Health Problems Leaders of these pediatric practices also report dramatic increases in depression and anxiety among children and at younger ages than is typical. School administrators in Las Vegas pointed to school closures as a factor in a spate of student suicides. Before the pandemic, suicides among youth had already been rising, becoming the second-leading cause of death among adolescents in 2019. “Mental health issues have gone through the roof and the acuity has gone up,” says Elizabeth Watts, M.D., CEO and medical director of Capital Area Pediatrics, with offices in cities and suburbs skirting D.C. The medical group has a nurse navigator dedicated to helping youth and adolescents, some suicidal, find therapists and inpatient care. Watts is particularly concerned about children and teens who before the pandemic turned to school and friends as a respite from conflict at home, and teens who identify as LGBTQ and find their peers at school. “Those are the kids I’m checking in with every three months and saying, ‘How is it going?’”
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