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Kids going to the e.r. for mental health and having to come back multiple times? >> amara, i'm an emergency room physician and this is not something that is new for covid. the problems with mental health existed long before covid. and unfortunately has gotten worse since. so what is happening is that there just isn't enough mental health treatment available. both in-patient treatment in the hospitals and other settings and out-patient treatment in the community. and so what happens is that parents are at their wits' end. and struggling with children who may be depressed or anxious or maybe thr...

Revisited the emergency department within six months. whereas in comparison, all other emergency department visits increased by only 1.5% annually. so that is what is concerning. and some of the mental health visits were for self-harm and some parents brought in their children for aggressive behaviors. so you see a wide range of mental health crisis here. and the researchers say this is an example of why we need to improve our mental health care and services and improve staffing and doing a better job of identifying patients who are at a high risk of revisiting the hospital. >> jacqueline howa...

Desperate. so this is a problem of not having enough treatment access and that is something that lawmakers have to fix. it is a problem of not having enough health care workers, it is a problem of reimbursement for mental health providers and we just are not treating mental health the same way this we treat physical health. imagine in a child was coming in with diabetes or a heart condition, they won't be turned away in the way they are of a mental health crisis. >> it is a systemic issue with the health system. but what could parents do to make sure that their children do get the proper menta...

A cnn health alert. a new study shows an increasing number of kids are receiving emergency treatment for mental health related issues. many of those children are going to the e.r., multiple times because of inadequate care. cnn's jacqueline howard is live in atlanta with the new research. jacqueline, what does the stud reveal? >> amara, i could tell you that the study shows that mental health emergency department visits are on the rise and some of those patients revisit the hospital within six months. so we're looking at visits alone. and what the researchers did, they looked at more than 200,...

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