Title: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents | Hub
Headings: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents
Faculty experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health discuss the challenges faced by adolescents during the coronavirus pandemic
By
Samuel Volkin
How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting adolescents?
Johns Hopkins responds to COVID-19
What can parents do to help adolescents understand the COVID-19 pandemic?
How can parents of adolescents try to maintain a routine while they are at home?
What advice do you have for parents about giving adolescents more leeway in screen time at home?
Are there ways for young people to replace the support they typically receive in school settings while engaging in social distancing?
How can high-schoolers cope with disappointments about experiences that they are now unable to have—such as prom and graduation?
What challenges exist for adolescents in lower-income communities?
Can the impacts of these disparities be mitigated?

Content: Young people should be given power and leadership to decide for themselves how to make up for not being able to do these things in person. They are incredibly innovative, so we will stay tuned to see the fun ways they choose to celebrate virtually. Marshall: One thing that is really important for adults is to remember to allow their kids to grieve over their losses. We should not trivialize their stressors or grief in the context of the larger issues playing out during this pandemic. Their grief over what they are experiencing—or not getting to experience—is real and parents need to give them time to process it. What challenges exist for adolescents in lower-income communities? Mendelson: This crisis is highlighting a lot of existing societal divides in the way it is disproportionately impacting lower-income communities. The levels of stress and trauma in low-income communities are higher because the impacts are more severe—there is more food insecurity, housing instability, loss of family income, as well as higher rates of illness and death among community members.