Psychiatry’s Jane Timmons-Mitchell, bioethics’ Eileen Anderson discuss the importance of mental health in the classroom

An Education Station wellness check on students back in the classroom

WKYC: Jane Timmons-Mitchell, clinical associate professor of psychiatry, and Eileen Anderson, associate professor of bioethics, discussed the importance of addressing mental health issues of students returning to classrooms following the onset of 2020’s global pandemic and ensuing lockdown. They agreed that children, overall, are happy to be back to the classroom this school year. However, it doesn’t come without student anxiety.