Today's teens have struggled through a pandemic, seeing livelihood lost as well as lives. They have been isolated from friends and often family members, found their social lives reduced to six feet apart wearing a mask, struggled to engage with school online, and feared for both the long-term health and economic effects of COVID-19. And while pandemics are, thankfully, very rare, they know that epidemics(diseases that sweep through a region rather than across the world) continue to be looming threat.
May experience conflicts with parents-who sometimes have alcohol or drug problems- bulling at school, sexual aggression, moving to a new city or new country, understanding cultural differences, hearing or seeing reports of disturbing events. All of these issues of living in our modern, hyper - connected world can especially plague teens.
Understand that we are facing a global environment crisis. They see videos of the amazon rain forest ablaze, oil spills polluting oceans and shores, and mountains of plastic swirling through the seas. They've heard about or lived through wildfires, extreme storms, rising temperatures, and the extinction of plant and animal species. Sometimes the world looks scary.
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