As the new school year begins, teachers at many schools across the country are adding a new component to their routines: a mental health check-in with their students. | via NPR
As kids return to school this fall, educators are prepared to deal with the continued mental health fallout of the disruptions of the pandemic.
The new approach comes after two and a half rocky years of pandemic, with kids' lives disrupted by bouts of remote schooling and many families in economic stress, which worsened the already shaky state of children's mental health in the U.S. "We had a lot of kids with elevated levels of anxiety and stress, and we were seeing students manifesting mental health symptoms that had not existed prior to the pandemic," Robert Mullaney, superintendent of Millis Public Schools in Massachusetts."We had an increase in suicidal ideation."Fallout from a national crisis
Many American families are still under financial strain, creating parental stress which has a big impact on children, says Kendall Roach, a therapist in Jefferson City, Missouri, who works with kids through the telehealth company, Babylon Health. Others have lost homes, adds Roach. "We have to actually equip our teachers to be able to approach classrooms in a trauma-informed way," says Villanueva Beard."What that would mean is that a student walks into a classroom and the teacher has set up a system where they're able to get on a device and right away share how they're feeling."advised teachers in schools in Houston that she works closely with.
Schools in New York have integrated mental health discussions and healthy habits as"sort of a fabric of the day," says Feuer
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