Students’ mental health will be affected by coronavirus. Are schools ready?

Students’ mental health will be affected by coronavirus. Are schools ready?

Posted on May 2, 2020

Thousands of mental health care professionals based in schools are scrambling to shift their work online, speaking with students by phone and video call, to varying degrees of success. Jennifer Rothman, senior manager of youth and young adult programs at NAMI, tells Mic, "School-based mental health professionals are going to have to give a lot of grace" to students as they reorient themselves to social life, early mornings, and focusing their attention for long periods of time.