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COVID-19: A crisis for 'years to come' - How lockdowns put children under 'unprecedented' levels of distress


Nicole Renshaw is a mental health nurse and is doing a routine and increasingly frequent part of her job - seeing children who have arrived in hospital after they have self-harmed. Before the pandemic, A&E attendances by children with psychiatric conditions had tripled in the last 10 years. Now, month on month, the numbers arriving at hospital are continuing to rise. Nicole works for the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) at Pennine Care NHS Trust. The CAMHS team is dealing with a surge in referrals - self-harm, suicide attempts, anxiety - a grim but growing list of troubles. 'There is going to be a section of people in our society who are kind of surviving through this now and are in total survival mode,' said the trust's lead clinical psychologist, Dr Chantal Basson. 'And as we come out of the pandemic, we're more likely to see the mental health impact on those young people and families. I think we might be feeling the tremors, but I think the impact may well yet to be seen.'

Sky News - May 19, 2021

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