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COVID-19: Children's Trips To ER For Mental Health Treatment Skyrocket COVID-19: Children's Trips To ER For Mental Health Treatment Skyrocket
Covid-19: Children's Trips To ER For Mental Health Treatment Skyrocket Dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic is enough to stress anyone out - and the mental strain is increasingly landing children in the hospital. The number of children’s visits to hospital emergency rooms for mental health treatment has increased by 24-31 percent since the start of the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This is all happening at a time when traditional avenues for child mental health are difficult or unavailable for access, such as school resources, in-person mental health visits, and non-emergency treatment. There are ways paren…

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by Kristin Palpini