More children are likely to experience toxic stress during the pandemic, which could lead to devastating impacts in the future.
Four-year-olds have playdates through closed windows, sliding their toy cars in unison on either side of the glass. A high school student worries about his mother going to work in a food-packing warehouse, at risk for contracting COVID-19. Another teen says “there is nothing to look forward to,” as he tries to avoid sliding into depression. Worried parents are calling school district hotlines seeking help for their troubled children.
Because of this pandemic, “we’re going to see increased stress-related cognitive impairment and diseases” and likely increased toxic stress, said Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, California’s surgeon general.for worsening chronic diseases, increased risk of autoimmune diseases, asthma, depression, anxiety and substance abuse deep into adulthood, Burke Harris said. At higher risk are children who have experienced untreated trauma before this outbreak.
In California public schools last year there were about 20,000 counselors, school psychologists, social workers and nurses — not all of whom are addressing mental health — for 6.1 million children. And schools“The resources that we would need to be able to implement some of these interventions are more constrained,” Burke Harris said.
that children who were quarantined for disease containment scored four times higher on a post-traumatic stress test than those who were not.In Las Virgenes Unified School District, student safety and wellness deans Families can also seek help from outside providers, some of which have agreements to provide services on school grounds.Parents whose children have special needs, like Bay Area mother Isabella Brown, face additional challenges.
She is concerned about this isolation and the future return to a school. Right now Oliver seems fine —and mental health experts say many children will emerge from this crisis unharmed.But a classroom setting is “going to be like a shock to him,” she said. “Is he going to be timid? Or is he going to be hyperactive? You don’t know how it’s going to affect them.”
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