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To turn the tide around on the growing teen mental health crisis, the U.S. needs to overhaul the current behavioral health system, experts argued on a virtual panel, sponsored by Big Health, mid-January.
Among the suspected drivers of the worsening crisis are social media and COVID-era isolation, which have led to a lack of socialization and coping mechanisms in young children and teens, mental health experts said during the panel.*
“We have had a mental health crisis for adults and youth probably as long as there’s any historical record,” Big Health’s chief medical officer Jenna Carl, Ph.D., said. “It’s just that we’ve become better at actually acknowledging and diagnosing.”