ReviewPerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2024
The Impact of School Closures on Learning and Mental Health of Children: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- Interpersonal Predictors of Youth Internalizing Symptom Trajectories During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Immigrant-native disparities in adolescent mental health during COVID‑19 school closures: a multilevel cross‑national analysis (PISA 2022).Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- How Were Functional Somatic Symptoms in Children Influenced by the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Retrospective Study of Children Admitted to a Tertiary Pediatric Emergency Hospital in Bucharest, Romania.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Effect of School Reopenings on Children's Mental Health During COVID-19: Quasi-experimental Evidence from California.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Proactive vs. reactive COVID-19 screening in schools: Lessons from experimental protocols in France during the Delta and Omicron waves.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Geographical Variation in SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Potential in Massachusetts.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Effectiveness of Non-Pharmacological Interventions in Treating Adolescents and Young Adults with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Long COVID: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2026Review
- Experts' subjective theories: how did they explain post-pandemic school violence in their public discourse through digital media?Frontiers in sociology · 2026Article
- COVID-19 stress, aggressiveness, and deviant behaviour: a mediation analysis of youth in the pandemic era.Australian journal of psychology · 2026Article
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- Changes in Child and Youth Mental Health Following the Return To In-Person Learning Post-COVID-19 Pandemic.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- Social-emotional competencies and psychological well-being across secondary school transition.The British journal of developmental psychology · 2025Article
- Ethical considerations in infectious disease modelling for public health policy: the case of school closures.Interface focus · 2025Article
- Changes in internalizing and externalizing problems in Dutch children and adolescents receiving outpatient youth care before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Global, regional and national burdens of major depression disorders and its attributable risk factors in adolescents and young adults aged 10-24 years from 1990 to 2021.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Interrupted Learning across the Lifespan.Human development · 2025Article
- Trends in the Use of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic, February 2021 to December 2023: A Mixed Methods Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Impact of non-pharmacological interventions on the first wave of COVID-19 in Portugal 2020.Heliyon · 2025Article
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Abstract
To curb the spread of the coronavirus, almost all countries implemented nationwide school closures. Suddenly, students experienced a serious disruption to their school and social lives. In this article, we argue that psychological research offers crucial insights for guiding policy about school closures during crises. To this end, we review the existing literature on the impact of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on children's learning and mental health. We find that the unprecedented scale and length of school closures resulted in a substantial deficit in children's learning and a deterioration in children's mental health. We then provide policy recommendations on how to ensure children's learning and psychosocial development in the future. Specifically, we recommend that more attention should be paid to students from marginalized groups who are most in need of intervention, evidence-informed and personality-tailored mental-health and social- and emotional-learning programs should be implemented in schools, and generational labels should be avoided.
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