By Renée Bacher
Wearing masks, social distancing, hybrid learning and other attempts to stop the spread of COVID-19 and its mutations have taken a toll on children over the past two years. Teachers and pediatricians are seeing it at work. Parents are dealing with it at home. And a therapist without a packed schedule is hard to find for a struggling child or teen.
Last fall, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), and