Psychiatrist knows what to do

“Young people think adulthood is no longer fun”

Dr. Ellen Auer-Welsbach has been Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Kepler University Hospital Linz since May of this year.(Bild: Horst Einöder/Flashpictures)

Mental illness in boys and girls has been on everyone's lips since the coronavirus pandemic. We wanted to find out from an expert what it takes for boys to grow up healthy.

Ellen Auer-Welsbach is head of the Upper Austrian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic at the Kepler University Hospital in Linz. This is the only acute ward in the state, and the 52 beds and 24 day-clinic places are always fully utilized.