Salute mentale di bambini e adolescenti: nuove emergenze

The Covid-19 pandemic has acted as a detrimental trigger for the malaise of pre-adolescents and adolescents, who, in a context of continuous and rapid social changes, are going through difficult times, featured by an epidemiological wideranging increase in accesses to mental health services, so high that it is likely to become a ‘new normality’. This article reviews the last three years of Italian medical history and shows the epidemiological data collected at national level and at the Giannina Gaslini tertiary care children’s hospital in the metropolitan city of Genoa.