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Podcast: The Mental Elf
Episode: Polly Waite - Youth mental health during COVID-19 lockdown: an update from the Co-Space study
Description: Children show increase in mental health difficulties over COVID-19 Lockdown – but same pattern not seen in teenagersOver a one-month period in lockdown: •Parents/carers of primary school age children taking part in the survey report an increase in their child’s emotional, behavioural, and restless/attentional difficulties.•Parents/carers of secondary school age children report a reduction in their child’s emotional difficulties, but an increase in restless/attentional behaviours. •Adolescents taking part in the survey report no change in their own emotional or behavioural, and restless/attentional difficulties.•Parents/carers of children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) and those with a pre-exi...