“Children and adolescents are experiencing a prolonged state of physical isolation from their peers, teachers, extended families, and community networks,” the authors wrote. “Duration of quarantine, fear of infection, boredom, frustration, lack of necessary supplies, lack of information, financial loss, and stigma appear to increase the risk of negative psychological outcomes.
“Social distancing and school closures may therefore increase mental health problems in children and adolescents, already at higher risk of developing mental health problems compared to adults at a time when they are also experiencing anxiety over a health threat and threats to family employment/income.”
In an email, Rhode Island Health Department spokesman Joseph Wendelken said his office has “not observed an increase in the number of suicides to date” but the proportion of emergency-department visits among Rhode Islanders age 10 to 17 “relating to suicidal thoughts and actions was approxim
CUMBERLAND As the coronavirus pandemic stretched from days to weeks to months without end, the mental health of Amanda Choiniere’s daughter Isabella, 16, and son, Ben, 13, began to suffer. Home-schooling, social isolation and the transformation of life to the netherworld they and many other children now inhabit exacted a price.
“When a 13-year-old and a 16-year-old can no longer play sports that they usually play or interact with friends they usually hang out with on a normal basis, that impacts, of course, their mental health status,” said Choiniere, who works, remotely now, for Adoption Rhode Island.
Ben, who attends middle school, finds himself frequently frustrated, his mother said.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music on Feb. 5, announced “a generous reinvestment” in an endowment by the Mohinder Brar Sambhi Estate. This gift increases
The National Museum of African American Music in Nashville, Tennessee, hosts its ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday, Jan. 18, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. More than a collection of interesting objects, the museum chronicles the rise of African American music as well as its influence on American culture.
Each of the museumâs seven galleries pinpoints a different aspect of the African American experience. For example, the Wade in the Water space focuses on religious music, from Indigenous African music through the spirituals and hymns of the slavery era to the gospel music of the 1940s to 1960s.Â
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