joining me now is the professor of psychiatry doctor william martinez. thank you for joining us. yo >> thank for having me. >> as a psychologist can you briefly describe for us what mental health challeng you are seeing in your parents patients, particularly around >> yes that is a great question. we are seeing a lot of hardship with our milies as well and e we primarily selks on public insuranceand what we are seeing is a lot of stggling on figuring out how to provide the kids education if these parents are working from home how they are able toth ork from home and do a second job of being e educator for their kidsfo fos who are front-line essential workers we are seeing a lot of stress to figure t how to to provide childcare or have childcare provided for their kids at home and their education provided while are out working. >> i am curious how much higher a lehel of mental th struggle that you are seeing these days through the pandemic and ing into the school year? >> i can safely say and i have been talking with colleagues all around the country who were in similar clinics wo

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