Raising Resilient Kids: Dr. Leah Snodgrass on Faith, Social Media, and the Youth Mental Health Crisis
Dr. Leah Snodgrass joins host Dr. Mike Chupp for a conversation about the mental health crisis facing children and adolescents today. Rates of anxiety and depression among young people have doubled since the pandemic, yet access to care, especially in rural and underserved communities, remains critically out of reach. Dr. Snodgrass is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and Chair of Psychiatry at Lincoln Memorial University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, and she has spent her career on the front lines of this crisis. In this episode, she and Dr. Chupp dig into what it actually looks like to care for the next generation with clinical excellence, real compassion, and Christ at the center.
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Dr. Leah Cobb Snodgrass is a board-certified physician in child, adolescent and general adult psychiatry who serves as Professor of Psychiatry and Chair of Behavioral Health at LMU DCOM. She is a graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and completed her internship, residency and fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Snodgrass is a native of Middlesboro KY and has been a member of the DCOM faculty since 2012. She is the course director for OMS II Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences courses and the Rotation Chair for OMS III Behavioral Health. She is the current Chair of the Psychiatry Section of CMDA. She likes to cook and bake plant based whole food recipes for herself and her husband. Her 19-year-old twin daughters won’t eat it – but she keeps trying!
