Friday,March 26, 1-2 p.m. (EDT): "Service Use by At-Risk Youth after School-based Suicide Screening." Madelyn Gould, Ph.D., M.P.H., will present the results of a recent JACCAP study involving high school students who received a mental health checkup. Register now.
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.
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Early Depressive Symptoms Not Benign
A new Columbia University study shows that screening helps to identify a need for treatment; patients who screen positive and do not receive treatment are likely to get worse over time.
A recent study reveals that most teens and parents believe that the problem of adolescent suicide lies outside of their own communities. The authors of a study in Pediatrics suggest pediatricians can bridge the information gap.
The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) offers a comprehensive round-up of available screening tools and current recommendations on how best to incorporate into practice.
The TeenScreenNationalCenter 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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