Young people’s mental health was already under strain before the Covid-19 pandemic, but the acute phase of the pandemic disproportionately affected them.
This is the main conclusion of a report on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on young people’s mental health and the policy responses of states in Europe, published on Monday 10 October by the European Commission.
Several factors are put forward to explain this asymmetry. The most important factor seems to be job loss, with young...