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TeenScreen Primary Care
Mental health checkup and depression screening initiatives are being developed and implemented by health professionals across America. Providing mental health checkups and/ or depression screening in medical settings strengthens the idea that mental and physical health are equal contributors to a young person’s overall health and development. Whether you are a doctor, a nurse or other health professional in a clinic, hospital or primary care setting, you can help bring mental health checkups to your setting as a part of routine healthcare for adolescent patients.

The TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups offers medical providers free access to evidence-based resources to provide annual mental health checkups and/ or depression screening to adolescent patients as part of their routine healthcare.

  1. Sign-up to receive FREE implementation materials, which consists of the TeenScreen Primary Care Pocket Guide and copies of an evidence-based screening questionnaire.

    There are two versions of the Pocket Guide, each comes with a different screening questionnaire (either the Pediatric Symptom Checklist for Youth, PSC-Y or the Patient Health Questionnaire Modified for Teens, PHQ-9 Modified). Both Pocket Guides include:

    • TeenScreen Primary Care Overview
    • An evidence-based screening questionnaire (either the PSC-Y or the PHQ-9 Modified for Teens)
    • Information on administering and scoring the questionnaire
    • Tips for interpreting the screening questionnaire results
    • Tips on making a referral for patients identified as being at possible risk
    • Tips for coding and reimbursement
    • Several copies of the "What's on Your Mind" teen brochure that contains a copy of the screening questionnaire
  2. Download and review a power point presentation about implementing mental health checkups in primary care settings.
  3. Download the TeenScreen Primary Care brochure to learn more about TeenScreen Primary Care.
  4. Access and download the TeenScreen Primary Care Research Fact Sheet to learn more about the research that support mental health checkups in primary care.
  5. Participate in the Medscape CME Training Course to receive CME credits and learn more about the implementation of screening.
  • New Medscape Article - Medscape Provides First Hand Account of Mental Health Checkups: “Identifying Adolescent Mental Illness Early through Routine Mental Health Screening” examines the need for risk assessment in adolescent health care and insights from a practitioner.

New Resources Available to Primary Care Providers

More information about TeenScreen Primary Care Program can be found in the Programs and Initiatives section.