“The surge of families needing help for their kids has revealed a deficit of people and places to treat them.”
The rates of mental health challenges in teenagers such as anxiety, suicide, and depression have increased significantly since the pandemic. The pandemic has created the occasion for an increase in mental health issues by preventing teenagers from socializing. Now, mental health issues have increased and professionals are seeing a large volume of these cases. It is alarming that most teenagers don’t have access to help with these issues. Emergency rooms are overwhelmed and professionals have seen large increases in these mental health challenges. This reality perhaps calls for new ways of addressing and detecting mental health challenges.
In this article, Dr. Pickett utilizes a telehealth approach. However, there are numerous other ways to address these mental health challenges. Read this article to learn more about the nature of the teen mental health crisis in America.