Myths about the Pandemic and Adolescent Mental Health
A Comment on The crisis of student mental health is much vaster than we realize (The Washington Post)
The Washington Post recently published a report titled The crisis of student mental health is much vaster than we realize (Donna St. George & Valerie Strauss) about the numerous difficulties facing schools in their attempts to deal with various mental health issues of its students.
Unfortunately this otherwise praiseworthy article may be considerably misleading at times, especially due to omission, misdirection and ambiguity, in its handling of statistical data and scientific evidence regarding the effects of the pandemic in general and school closings in particular on the mental health of adolescents.
