»I don’t want to work here anymore.« That’s what one in four employees in the Capital Region’s child and adolescent mental health services say within a year of being hired.
Pediatric psychiatry is under huge strain, and new staff are quitting as a result
»I don’t want to work here anymore.« That’s what one in four employees in the Capital Region’s child and adolescent mental health services say within a year of being hired.
Pediatric psychiatry is under huge strain, and new staff are quitting as a result
»Children and young people need better support before they end up in psychiatric care,« says center director Hallur Thorsteinsson. Foto: Christian Falck Wolff
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In the myth of Sisyphus, he’s condemned to push a sizable boulder up a mountain. Every time he nears the summit, the stone rolls back down, and he has to start over. From this myth comes the term ’Sisyphean task,’ meaning a job that never ends despite relentless, determined effort.
This is somewhat akin to the situation in child and adolescent psychiatry in the country’s largest region over the past few years.
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