Find out what students said their schools can do to help support their mental health, from more education to excused mental health days.
Today’s high school seniors have lived through a deadly pandemic, increasing rates of climate disaster, and an armed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — all before getting their driver’s licenses. Contentious national politics, global crises, social isolation, and the personal and academic pressures of high school have fueled what U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has called the “crisis of our time:” a national mental health emergency among young people.
“ Joan Asarnow, PhD, clinical psychologist and professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, said that while the outside world might be stressful for students, schools should make sure they are a safe space. Schools should assess their “school environment to make sure that they don’t have an environment that is adversely affecting the kids.
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