DBHIDS - City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services
DBHIDS - City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services
12/07/2024 | News release | Archived content
Why CHOP’s chief psychiatrist is hopeful in the midst of a child and teen mental health crisis
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"We all need to come together to support healthy emotional development," said Tami Benton, CHOP's psychiatrist-in-chief.
The kids are still not all right.
Three years after the U.S. surgeon general sounded alarms about a youth mental health crisis, many young people are still struggling. Roughly one in five teens is experiencing anxiety and depression. Suicide continues to be a leading cause of death for adolescents, and suicide rates continue to climb for Black youth.
Meanwhile, the Philadelphia area lacks sufficient psychiatrists specializing in child and adolescent mental health to help treat youth in crisis, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, or AACAP.