581 - The Kids are Not Alright
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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A devastating CDC report on youth risk behavior paints a grim picture of how today's adolescents are faring mentally. Dr. Kathleen Ethier, director of the Division of Adolescent and School Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, joins Stephanie Desmon to discuss the large increase in depression, suicidal ideation and sexual violence being seen among teenage girls and LGBTQ kids. They talk about what schools and parents can do to help.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.h.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jhh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:32.5 | This is Stephanie Desmond. |
| 0:34.7 | Today's episode is a tough one. |
| 0:37.0 | Recent CDC data suggests that teenage girls |
| 0:39.9 | and LGBTQ students are really struggling with their mental health, with three and five teen |
| 0:45.4 | girls reporting symptoms of sadness and hopelessness in 2021. I talked to Kathleen, |
| 0:50.6 | Eithier, director of the CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health about the devastating numbers and how we can and must help our kids. |
| 1:00.2 | Let's listen. |
| 1:01.8 | Kathleen Ethier, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:05.0 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:07.0 | I brought you here today because I have read the recent CDC report on youth and adolescent behavior. |
| 1:15.3 | And it tells us the kids are not all right. |
| 1:19.1 | And some of the results are really scary. |
| 1:21.3 | And I'm wondering if you could run through a little bit about what you found. |
| 1:24.5 | Yeah, sure. |
| 1:25.1 | These data are really clear. |
| 1:27.0 | Young people are telling us that they are in crisis, |
| 1:29.5 | and we have to act on that. So we see that all students, kind of across all of the different |
| 1:36.7 | groups that we look at, got worse in terms of their mental health. And so at this point now, |
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