The U.S. Surgeon General visited Nationwide Children's Hospital, Otterbein and Ohio State Tuesday in a push for improved youth mental health care.
Surgeon General declares youth mental health 'defining challenge' for USAs the COVID-19 pandemic winds down, one of the nation's top doctors is warning Ohioans to prepare for a crisis exacerbated by years of social distancing and shuttered schools — youth mental health.
"... Right now, our kids are telling us very clearly that they are struggling and it's up to us to collectively respond."Around 44% of high school students have reported feeling persistently sad and hopeless and on average it takes about 11 years for a child struggling with his or her mental health to obtain treatment, Murthy said.
For the last several years, Murthy has publicly talked about loneliness and how it plays an important role in other health and social problems. He has even published a book on the subject,"Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World."There are 16 mental health care facilities for children in Ohio, four of which are located in Greater Columbus, according to data from the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
The workforce, he said, shouldn't be limited to psychiatrists and psychologists. It needs to expand to include more school counselors, clinical social workers and everyday community members who can be trained to administer"mental health first aid.">>Read More:The surgeon general recalled visiting in 2016 a remote fishing village in Alaska, where he stopped by a small clinic where there was a video screen hanging on the wall.
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