When it comes to mental health days for kids, the decision is not clear-cut. Lack of physical symptoms and the perception of kids using them as an excuse are contributing to the ambivalence around mental health days.
When kids are physically unwell, there are clear indicators for parents when deciding to keep them home from school, whether it’s a high temperature or runny nose. But when it comes to mental health days, when young people need time off to look after their emotional state , the decision is not so clear-cut.
Beyond a lack of physical symptoms to justify a day off, ambivalence around mental health days is also associated with a view that kids are falsely using them as a way to get out of school, says Linda Williams, clinical lead at ReachOut.“Mental health days have a bad rap and can be associated with slacking off or taking a day off when you aren’t unwell,” she says. To some degree, the rise of videos posted on social media about mental health days from school are playing a role in popularising this opinio
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