New Findings About Children’s Mental Health During COVID-19, Psychiatric Times, October 20, 2020

COVID-19 has brought about a complex array of factors (uncertainty, social isolation, and parental angst) that have an impact on the mental health of children and adolescents. Predictability is a stabilizing force for children and adolescents, but it has been disrupted since the COVID-19 outbreak.

Covid stress taking a toll on children's mental health, CDC finds, NBC News, November 12, 2020

Disruptions to daily life during the pandemic, anxiety about contracting Covid-19 and social isolation are all taking a toll on children's mental health, a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests.

Covid is having a devastating impact on children — and the vaccine won't fix everything, NBC News, December 15, 2020

It has been almost 10 months since Covid-19 began battering families in the United States, putting parents out of work, shrouding their homes in grief and loss, and shutting children out of the schools that taught and cared for them.

Covid: The devastating toll of the pandemic on children, BBC News, January 30, 2021

From increasing rates of mental health problems to concerns about rising levels of abuse and neglect and the potential harm being done to the development of babies, the pandemic is threatening to have a devastating legacy on the nation's young.

Mental Health–Related Emergency Department Visits Among Children Aged <18 Years During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, January 1–October 17, 2020, Weekly / November 13, 2020

Published reports suggest that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a negative effect on children’s mental health.

Zoom school’s mental health toll on kids, APA, October 13, 2020

Patricia Perez, PhD, has a front-row view of how the shift from in-person school to distance learning is affecting many youth, and she sees a disturbing trend: Many children are struggling and parents are unsure how to help..