Young people in the United States are experiencing a mental health crisis. Warnings from the surgeon general, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association and other prominent organizations, as well as regular news reports, highlight the catastrophe, with parents struggling to help their children, and students lined up in school halls to get even a few minutes with counselors, psychologists or social workers who are overwhelmed with young patients seeking services.
The results are clear. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where one of us is the director of adolescent and school health, reveal that in the 10 years prior to the pandemic, a remarkably high number of young people reported feeling severe emotional distress. Specifically, in 2019, 37 percent of high school students questioned in a survey said they felt so sad and hopeless that they couldn’t participate in their regular activities, and about one in five U.S.
More than a quarter of youth in the U.S. told us they experienced hunger, and more than half told us they experienced emotional abuse by an adult in their homes. We also heard that more than 60 percent of Asian students and more than half of Black students experienced racism in their schools. As we saw prepandemic, emotional distress and suicidal thoughts and behaviors continued to worsen, and these problems were more significant among female and LGBQ students.
Science also has identified effective strategies to prevent emotional or behavioral distress by teaching children skills for how to interpret or cope with stressors, how to develop healthy social relationships, strategies to lower anxiety, and how to spot the warning signs for depression. Yet resources are not available to allow these prevention approaches to be deployed at scale or used among populations most at need. Thus, youth continue to suffer needlessly.
These approaches are not controversial. Methods to increase connectedness include classroom management techniques that reinforce attentive, cooperative and collaborative behaviors, reduce peer victimization and help youth understand how others feel and behave.
Lemme guess... Take them to Drag Queen Hour so they can see a deviants testicles hanging out of their lingerie.
Modern life is nothing but stress. There has never been as much uncertainty about the future as there is now. We are asking the new generation to be optimistic while the old generation is burning their way out of here.
We forget it's not just about educating the mind, it's about teaching the soul how to behave as well. So much wrapped up in consumerism, in all it's forms. I don't care about what your wearing or your latest cell, we should all care about morales
Aren’t teenagers _supposed_ to be a psychological disaster area? They are trying to cobble together an adult identity out of odds and ends
let's talk about how (sponsored) wannabe science journalists make everything worse
I wonder how anyone could grow up 40 years ago.
Take their phones away I made a deal with my kid if it gets through high school without getting addicted to the dumpster fire that is the internet We will buy him a car when he is 16 He also will have choirs and learn a work ethic and respect of course
Have you gone mad? This drivel could only have been written by a madman. Or a lobbyist. Or both.
Considering how they ignore adults with problems is it so strange they ignore teens and kids?
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