Dr Lily Brown discusses children’s mental health issues and school reopening

The mental health crisis following the coronavirus pandemic has affected millions across the world, with children and young adolescents seeing an increase in depression and anxiety symptoms and other struggles. Now that schools are reopening, are parents, teachers, and schools prepared for the issue? Dr. Lily Brown, Director of the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety and an Assistant and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, explains the impact of the pandemic on young people’s mental health, how schools have attempted to prepare, and what can be done to prepare students when they return to their campuses.