Prevention and early intervention are important, but in practice this can sometimes be difficult. Not only is there a shortage of youth doctors, but the care provided by youth doctors or school psychologists for these students is also not arranged in the same way in every municipality. Abrahams therefore advocates arranging this at the national level.
School psychologist Gezina Topper believes it is especially important for teachers to have good contact with their students. “We are concerned about whether a school notices when young people call in sick for the first time.” She believes it would already help enormously if a teacher or mentor asked the young people how they were doing.
However, both youth doctors and school psychologists believe that the problem certainly does not lie solely with the school or the young people. Abrahams: “One cause is also the performance-oriented society we live in.”
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