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Health beds has kept children stuck inside emergency rooms. officials say the average wait time for children for a hospital-based psychiatric care is six days. but many parents report spending weeks with their children in hospital hallways or overflow rooms because psychiatric units are full. joining us now, senior child and adolescent psychologist at mcclain hospital, dr. jilian gayle. she s an instructor in psychology at harvard. also the co-author of dbt for dummies, which is just out. also with us, dr. dave campbell. thank you all so much for being with us. jilian, what s so troubling to me about this, about this spate of stories coming out of massachusetts and i m sure across the rest of the united states, we ve been talking about the mental health crisis, especially in youth growing for some time. ....
Us for a while? i think this is going to be something that s going to be with us for a while. you know, what mental health workers and front line workers and regular health workers have gone through and endured over a period of time of time has just, it will have tremendous impact. and those are things that we can treat, but they take time. i think we re looking at a couple of years for us to really catch up and support the people in the medical profession that helped us through this pandemic. and i think we ll see a surge in teachers, as well. dr. jillian galen and dave campbell. dr. galen is a lead author of the book dbt for dummies and we appreciate you both being on today. our next guest is also a colleague who stepped back from the anchor desk to take care of his ailing dad and that s what sparked his new project on what ....