Debate: The impact of school closures and lockdown on mental health in young people
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The COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown response has had a disproportionate and damaging effect on the lives, mental health and well‐being of young people globally. They have been neglected in policy‐making and their needs have been subjugated to those of adults which contravenes the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Here, I argue that the needs and rights of young people must come first to protect their health, mental health and futures. If we do not do this, we will let down a generation of children who will bear the brunt of the fallout of the economic burden of the global COVID‐19 crisis.
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Children, especially from low-income families, have been negatively affected by the lack of in-person learning during the pandemic.
“In addition, children, especially from low-income families, have been negatively affected by the lack of in-person learning during the pandemic.17,18”
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Vaccination of adolescents will allow them to reintegrate into society and resume in-person learning safely.
“Vaccination of adolescents will allow them to reintegrate into society and resume in-person learning safely, which are especially important outcomes given the severe mental health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on this group.18,22,26”
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- Authors
- Townsend, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Nottingham (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Townsend, Ellen
- ORCID
- Townsend, Ellen
- Venue
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2020-10-13
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 265-266
- ISSN
- 1475-357X (ISSN-L)
- 1475-3588
- PMC
- PMC7675670
- OpenAlex
- W3091793435
- Cited by
- 47
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 10
- FWCI
- 3.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Social impacts of COVID-19
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- school closures, COVID-19 lockdown, youth mental health, child and adolescent well-being, children's rights, Convention on the Rights of the Child, pandemic response policy, economic impact of COVID-19
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, Adolescent, Child, Humans, Learning, Mental Health, Pneumonia, Viral, Quarantine, Schools, Students, Coronavirus Infections, Pandemics, Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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