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Challenges for Child Mental Health Raised by School Closure and Home Confinement During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Source :
- Current Psychiatry Reports
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer US, 2021.
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Abstract
- Purpose of Review The closure of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted the education of children worldwide. This paper reviews the psychological effects of this action on children and the impact on school-based services. Recent Findings Emerging epidemiologic findings have generated an intense debate about the need for, and potential benefit of, school closure in the context of COVID-19. International research reveals reactions in children that are not typically considered in the disaster literature as well as those that arise in other disasters. School closure also has curtailed the delivery of mental health services commonly offered in schools. Summary The debate about school closure will likely persist depending on local disease conditions and school readiness. Moreover, school closure is a possibility in future epidemics and pandemics and other disasters. The benefit of school closure must be balanced against the risk to children’s education and psychosocial development.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
School closure
education
Context (language use)
Nursing
Pandemic
medicine
Humans
Closure (psychology)
Child and Family Disaster Psychiatry (B Pfefferbaum, Section Editor)
Child
Children
Pandemics
Public health
Schools
SARS-CoV-2
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development
COVID-19
Mental health
Psychiatry and Mental health
Mental Health
Action (philosophy)
Disaster
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15351645 and 15233812
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Psychiatry Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4ae0a9b603a10474fa8ea106c431aa5c