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Top middle school counselor shares advice on how to move forward with youth mental health crisis

School counselor Alma Lopez tells us about how middle school students are coping during the pandemic.
A 6th grade pupil walks down a stairwell at his middle school. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

America’s school counselors have a difficult task before them on the ground as they face a national youth mental health crisis.

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory on this earlier this month saying the pandemic has contributed to already rising numbers in anxiety, depression and suicide rates among adolescents.

is the lead school counselor at Livingston Middle School in Merced County, California, and was recently named the American School Counselor

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