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Students are returning to school with anxiety, grief and gaps in social skills – will there be enough school mental health resources?

  • Written by Sandra M. Chafouleas, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut
imageSchool districts are using federal COVID-19 relief funds to hire more mental health professionals.mmpile/E+ Collection via Getty Images

Even before COVID-19, as many as 1 in 6 young children had a diagnosed mental, behavioral or developmental disorder. New findings suggest a doubling of rates of disorders such as anxiety and depression among...

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