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Season 2 | Episode 05

Supporting Our Kids

Mental health needs are increasing in youth. Experts share their insights on how to best support them so they can grow into healthy adults.

August 31, 2021 | 47 minutes

Until It's Fixed episode 5 featuring the podcast hosts

Stacey Dove brings together 3 child and adolescent psychiatrists, Drs. Mona Potter, Jonathan Stevens and Yusra Benhalim, to discuss adolescent mental health, a growing need magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. From how widespread mental health challenges are — 1 in every 5 teenagers is expected to already have or develop them — to how to identify and address them, the conversation focuses on ways families, other caregivers and the broader health system can support children and teenagers so they can grow into healthy adults.