More and more students are going to hospital emergency departments for mental health related visits, but schools don’t have evidence-based practices to support them when they return to class, according to a University of Virginia researcher.
There’s been an uptick in mental health emergency departments, or EDs, visits, with a major uptick in suicide-related visits, according to Lora Henderson Smith, a UVA assistant professor and licensed clinical psychologist. Those visits have notably increased for girls, uninsured youth and youth from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds, Smith said.
If students are discharged from an ED and return to “regular life,” that usually involves going to school the following day, Smith said.
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