ORLANDO, Fla. – Stress has been building for weeks as the deadline approaches to decide how students will go back to school during the coronavirus pandemic.
News 6 spoke with two specialists about how those decisions can affect children’s mental health. Amanda Reineck is a behavioral health coordinator for Embrace Families in Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties.
Dr. Larry Mitnaul, MD is a child and adolescent psychiatrist with Ascension Medical Group in Wichita, Kansas. Here’s what they had to say about the back-to-school decisions and the conversations and feelings that surround them:Question: Does the stress that parents feel making the decisions about school impact kids?Answer: “They can pick up on that stress, that anxiety, that worry.