TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University

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Associated Press: Millennial Generation Has More Anxiety - Five times as many high school and college students are dealing with mental health issues as youth in the Depression era, according to an article covered in the Jan. 11 New York Times.

Webinar Materials

Mon. Feb. 8: "Offering Mental Health Checkups to Adolescents in the Primary Care Office." Download the webinar slides and the recorded audio file to learn more about the in-office mental health screening process from TeenScreen Physician Advisor, John Genrich, M.D.

TeenScreen Primary Care is an initiative designed to assist healthcare professionals with offering mental health checkups to adolescent patients as part of routine healthcare.

Medscape Provides In-depth Review of Mental Health Checkups: A recent article examines the need for risk assessment in adolescent health care and insights from a practitioner.

Put your school or community on the map and become part of a growing national public health initiative, TeenScreen Schools and Communities.

Click here to learn more about starting a local program in your school-based or community-based setting.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Screens in Emergency Department, Primary Care Network - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia primary care providers are using a web-based mental health screening tool for adolescents as a standard of care.

Tools and Resources

New tools and resources for screening are available for primary care providers, including AAP’s new Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's new Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS).

PBS Emotional Life Series

In a three-part series airing this month, PBS' Emotional Life profiles adolescents with severe depression. “…while somebody is struggling with depression, they’re unable to make the social gains, the intimacy gains, the academic gains that are so necessary.” Read more.

Physician Advisor Joins TeenScreen

John H. Genrich, M.D., a pediatrician from Colorado Springs, Colo., joins TeenScreen this month as its new Physician Advisor. In this role, Dr. Genrich will liaise with primary care providers across the U.S. to offer guidance on offering mental health checkups in primary care.

Medicaid Well-Child Visits and Mental Health Checkups

The Medicaid well-child visit requires assessment for early identification of mental illness, but a review of state programs reveals that mental health screening rates are low. MA sets an example for improvement.

TeenScreen info for Healthcare Providers

State Resource Center

Where does your state rank?

Access up-to-date mental health and youth suicide statistics from all fifty states in our comprehensive State Resource Center.

National Center Newsletter

Checkup e-news

The TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups publishes a monthly newsletter called Checkup e-news. View the current issue of Checkup e-news and sign-up to receive the e-news.

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