Health & Well-Being: Supporting the Adults on Campus

As an adolescent psychologist, I spend a lot of time with teenagers. In spring 2020, however, I started to receive requests from school leaders who wanted to provide psychological support, focus groups, and other programming for—and about—adults in the school community. School leaders told me that anxiety, discontent, and anger were spreading faster than COVID-19 at a high school party. There were tensions, power struggles, hurt feelings, in-groups, and out-groups. Zoom meeting chats became so contentious they had to be disabled. Some folks were bursting into tears.

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