Posted on Sep 4, 2022
Teen Empowerment Can Help Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis | Kerry McDonald
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According to the CDC, “visits for overall MHCs among all children and adolescents accounted for a larger proportion of all pediatric visits during 2020, 2021, and January 2022 than during 2019.” This trend has continued throughout 2022, with a separate March CDC study finding that more than 40 percent of high school students reported feeling “persistently sad or hopeless” within the last year. And in June, a Boston Globe article reported that at one large regional hospital system in Massachusetts, “almost all of the pediatric emergency beds were occupied by children who were suicidal."
Teen Empowerment Can Help Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis | Kerry McDonald
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We have run out of therapists in the National Capital Region (i.e. Washington DC and the surrounding Northern Va and Maryland areas) who take adolescent clients because there are so many. The hospital that takes eating disorders and self harm clients has a very long wait list.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown It is likely the same everywhere else, also. All the turmoil and polarity seems hardest on adolescents. Good ol' predictable teenage angst, instead, is a luxury they don't have. It is heartbreaking.
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Wow! This situation is far more serious than I would ever have imagined! Thank you for sharing this information, Charlie!
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