RAB Source Entry #2 — Migdalia Rivera

Part 1 MLA Citation

Slater, Jonathan. “Our Children Are Suffering. We Must Help Them.” The New York Times . Tues .28 Dec. 2021.

Summary

Jonathan Slater the writer of “Our Children Are Suffering. We Must Help Them.” The New York Times says teenagers and young teenagers are being mental health affected by the coronavirus pandemic . Dr. Slater is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital . Dr Slater mentions he has been getting more over time requests . Parents are calling Dr Slater to his patients more ( their children ) .Dr Slater said” I often cannot find other clinicians to refer children to or to treat alongside me using other types of therapy, because everyone is already too busy” . He points out that many other clinics are overbooked and packed  . He feels like 72-hour emergency evaluation units , more child psychiatrists and more outpatient programs need to be more accessible.  Dr Slater expresses it is too much for him to handle knowing that these are his patients and that he can’t give them the help they need .He became a psychiatrist to transform the lives of youths with mental health issues .  The pandemic brought out more PTSD , anxiety and depression upon college students  . 

Reflection

 Dr Slater mentions that He feels like 72-hour emergency evaluation units , more child psychiatrists and more outpatient programs need to be more accessible . I understand that we need more of those things accessible to our young people but I don’t think it’ll stop from there . We can have many things handed over to us but that doesn’t mean we’ll use the resources that are given to us . I don’t think people with mental health issues will be fine with venting to a random psychiatrist . Yes, rates of anxiety , depression and PTSD have risen dramatically since the epidemic by 25%. I personally wouldn’t be fine venting to psychiatrists awaiting a diagnosis . I think this will cause patients to run the other way and bring them into a darker side .

Rhetorical / Genre Analysis

This article is attempting to grasp the audience of those who were emotionally afflicted by the coronavirus pandemic . Jonathan Stater decided to op-ed editorial to point out the trouble that came with the coronavirus epidemic . He uses writing as a platform to enlighten who suffered from the effects and after damage of the epidemic or just inform  . I think it’s astonishing that a psychiatrist can give us people in-put on how life was for mental health patients , psychiatrist , family  and himself were affected . I think this article can reach other people to inform them on the things the system lacks to help teenagers / young adults .

Notable Quotables

” I often cannot find other clinicians to refer children to or to treat alongside me using other types of therapy, because everyone is already too busy” . He points out that many other clinics are overbooked and packed  . He feels like 72-hour emergency evaluation units , more child psychiatrists and more outpatient programs need to be more accessible ” ( paragraph 16)

3 thoughts on “RAB Source Entry #2 — Migdalia Rivera”

  1. Migdalia:

    You need a better summary. Read the Op-Ed piece more carefully. When I read your summary I still don’t understand what the article was really about. You have missed the main ideas.

    Then review how to write the Refleciton 3A and the Rhetorical Genre Analysis 3B paragraphs.

  2. Hey Migdalia, I completely agree with you. Talking to a random stranger is pretty awkward and you’re never going to say how you truly feel. Though it may be useful to some, i don’t see many of our generations teenagers taking that route.

  3. Source 2 is supposed to be an Op-Ed piece. Is this an Op- Ed piece? Did you say that in the Rhetorical Genre Analysis part? In Part 3B Rhetorical Genre Analysis, you need a sentence that says this is an opinion editorial piece.

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