Every year as schools and sixth form colleges approach exam season, psychotherapist Ian Jenkinsbegins to receive a rise in calls from parents worried about their children's mental health.
"Teachers are under evermore pressure to get results, so they pass on this pressure to students and their parents," he tells HuffPost UK. "I hear about students facing 'meltdowns', getting increasingly angry, collapsing or retreating into virtual worlds of false safety. Increasingly, young people wrongly believe they have to reach their target grades or they are failures, their lives are over, or their parents will be devastated."
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