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Children's mental health problems worsen

2021-11-17T05:09:34.302Z


DECRYPTION - Anxiety disorders, social phobias, addictions… For the defender of rights, “there is urgency”. It warns of the lack of support for the youngest, for whom the health crisis has been revealing.


“There is an emergency”

.

Claire Hédon, defender of rights, warns against

"the devastating risks"

of the lack of care for the mental health of young people in her annual report on the rights of the child.

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"Anxiety disorders progress in those under 15"

Anxiety disorders, social phobias, addictions…

“The health crisis has been revealing.

It has exacerbated already existing problems ”,

she was alarmed as World Day for the Rights of the Child is being held next Saturday.

Requests for consultation have exploded and delays in treatment have accumulated… 25 departments are not covered in child psychiatry or have only outpatient services.

Children in great suffering have arrived in pediatric services which were not used to dealing with such a level of suffering and did not have the appropriate infrastructure, ”

she continues.

The upheavals of daily life, confinements, school closures, the cessation of physical activities, sports and

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Source: lefigaro

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