Children’s Mental Health Week: how engaging in meaningful occupations elicits many benefits to our mental health and wellbeing
Written by Richard Harvey, Clinical Programmes Lead. Both adult and paediatric populations are affected negatively by loneliness and social isolation in terms of their physical and mental health. Compared to their classmates who are typically developing, children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) are more likely to be alienated and to feel lonely (Kwan et al., 2020).…