{"id":1355422,"date":"2022-03-02T15:39:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1355422"},"modified":"2022-03-02T15:57:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:57:27","slug":"doctors-declare-national-emergency-in-childrens-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doctors-declare-national-emergency-in-childrens-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors declare \u2018national emergency\u2019 in children\u2019s mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoctors-declare-national-emergency-in-childrens-mental-health%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1355422&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2491554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2491554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schooel.jpg\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - Children listen to their teacher as they sit in a classroom on the first day of the start of the school year, at the Chaptal elementary school in Paris, on September 2, 2019. - In France some 12.4 million students crossed the doors of elementary schools (6.7 million), secondary school (3.4 million) and high schools (2.3 million) on September 2, 2019. (Photo by Martin BUREAU \/ AFP) (Photo credit should read MARTIN BUREAU\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2491554\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2491554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TOPSHOT \u2013 Children listen to their teacher as they sit in a classroom. ( MARTIN BUREAU\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 12:14 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, March 2, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>Health experts are raising alarms about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children\u2019s mental health. During the pandemic, parents have reported grief, anxiety and depression among children while citing school closures and forced isolation as the primary culprits.<\/p>\n<p>Medical advisors say the majority of hospitalizations during the recent Omicron surge in adolescents were not for complications of COVID-19, but due to behavioral health concerns including suicidal thoughts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cMany of the things that our children are now dealing with \u2014 school, jobs, losing parents, losing family members, losing classmates, the news, ever-changing world \u2014 we didn\u2019t have those things when we were growing up,\u201d said Natasha Pierre, Dean of Mental Health Institute for Leadership and Lifelong Learning. \u201cSo the fatigue that adults are experiencing is also felt by our children, yet they lack the life experience and the vocabulary to articulate exactly what they\u2019re feeling.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A CDC study from the past decade found that one in five teens has experienced bouts of depression during their lifetimes, numbers which health experts say have dramatically risen during the pandemic. Doctors are now calling on parents to pay keen attention to their children\u2019s mental health and take action in necessary instances.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s important that if you see changes in your child \u2014 if they\u2019re not doing well in school, if they\u2019re withdrawing from activities and their friends, if they\u2019re spending all their time in their room, if they\u2019re only on social media and don\u2019t really talk in person \u2014 those can all be red flags that something\u2019s happening,\u201d expalined Dr. Christina Canody, Medical Director of Baycare Pediatric Service Line.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reports indicate overall emergency department visits by children have decreased each year since 2020 while visits for chronic illnesses, injuries, mental health and behavioral issues jumped during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as less than 1.5 percent of all pediatric COVID-19 cases in the U.S. resulted in hospitalization. The low severity of coronavirus among young Americans has notably prompted many GOP lawmakers and doctors to question if the lockdowns had more damaging effects on children than the disease they were enacted to stop.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/one-on-one-with-govt-finance-and-inflation-expert-justin-olson\/\">One-On-One With Govt. Finance And Inflation Expert, Justin Olson<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOPSHOT \u2013 Children listen to their teacher as they sit in a classroom. ( MARTIN BUREAU\/AFP via Getty Images) OAN Newsroom UPDATED 12:14 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, March 2, 2022 Health experts are raising alarms about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children\u2019s mental health. 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