The U.S. Surgeon General has warned that young people are facing "devastating" mental health effects as a result of the challenges experienced by their generation, including the coronavirus pandemic (U.S. Surgeon General, 2021).The World Health Organization (WHO, 2022) and the United Nations (United Nations, 2020) also have published numerous scientific and policy briefs that echo these sentiments on a global level.While there were already concerns about youth mental health prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the past two years have exposed children and adolescents to unprecedented events such as repeated periods of quarantine, school closures, disrupted peer relationships, COVID-19 infections, loss of loved ones, and a general sense of unpredictability in their lives.Consistent with previous pandemics (e.g., H1N1 influenza, Ebola), a growing body of literature shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a deleterious impact on youth mental health (Meherali et al., 2021;Singh et al., 2020).Studies conducted at the onset and throughout the course of the pandemic have noted increased mental health problems among youth, with greater impact noted among vulnerable subgroups, such as those with pre-existing mental health problems, those with physical disabilities, racial and ethnic minorities, and sexual minorities (Hawke et al., 2020(Hawke et al., , 2021)).COVID-19 has also created new challenges for mental health treatment, and the equitable delivery of quality services to those in need.The current paper provides an overview of youth mental health in the context of COVID-19 and addresses five timely questions: 1) How has COVID-19 affected youth mental health outcomes?2) What factors have contributed to mental health risk and resilience during COVID-19?3) How has COVID-19 affected mental health services utilization?4) What has been the impact of evidence-based treatments during COVID-19?and, 5) What are future directions for clinical research and policy to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of youth?
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