Editorial: Do lockdowns scar? Three putative mechanisms through which COVID‐19 mitigation policies could cause long‐term harm to young people's mental health

The use of lockdown to slow the spread of COVID‐19 has been unprecedented in its scale, scope and duration despite early predictions that such a measure would have a negative impact on the mental health and well‐being of many young people and their families. From a developmental psychopathology perspective both direct and indirect effects of lockdown‐related harms to young people’s mental health were predictable: Direct effects, for instance,...