To be fair, as the article does point out, college programs don’t have the resources. Neither do programs for adults, programs for children, etc.
We don’t have answers for people in crisis. We aren’t even coming up with anything new. It’s time for new ideas.
https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/06/mental-health-college-students/
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Maybe, most importantly, these parents seem to think they know better, that the mental health of their kids is something they can handle on their own. We know that isn’t true. We know the number of teens who have considered suicide is much higher than the number of parents who think their teen has. That doesn’t suggest that what we’ve been doing is working, it suggests that having mental health resources available at school is a net positive for everyone.
But that fact appears to be no match compared to stigma and conspiracy theories.
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