In a parenting column for CNBC (5/12), Jen Zamzow, an adjunct professor of healthcare ethics at Concordia University Irvine, wrote, “It’s hard for parents to give kids the mental health support they need without affordable and accessible mental health services.” Currently, the United States “has ‘a chronic shortage of psychiatrists, and it’s going to keep growing, says Saul Levin,” MD, MPA, FRCP-E, FRCPsych, “medical director of the American Psychiatric Association.” This “situation is even worse for rural areas: 60% of rural Americans live in an area with” a shortage of mental health clinicians.
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— “Here’s the No. 1 phrase moms are ‘sick of hearing’ on Mother’s Day, says parenting expert—what to say instead “Jen Zamzow, CNBC, May 12, 2023