The teen years are a time
of tremendous change. The TeenScreen NationalCenter for Mental Health Checkups is dedicated to offering
mental health checkups for youth to families throughout the country. For most
parents, screening can be reassuring, demonstrating that their teens are just
experiencing typical adolescent “growing pains.” For others, mental health
checkups can help parents identify and address problems like teen
depression early. Use the links below to access additional information
about mental health checkups.
“I’m a nurse and my husband is a doctor, we thought we’d know…If my husband and I could not identify Nick’s problems, then who could?”
Created to Help Families The TeenScreen NationalCenter
for Mental Health Checkups has grown to
become a nationwide public health effort because of the support from one father
whose family was affected by youth mental illness. He provided the early
financial support for the original TeenScreen Program and later provided
guidance to expand the program across the United States so that other parents
and families could benefit from mental health screening.
To read addtional information about mental health checkups, click here.
Are you concerned about your child? Unfortunately,
we are not able to provide mental health screening or clinical advice for
individual teens or families. The NationalCenter works by assisting
schools and communities and primary care settings to develop their own local
mental health screening programs that serve parents and teens in their own
communities.
Please visit the NationalCenter’s
Resource Linkssection for a
listing of organizations that can support you and your family further in
determining the best course of action for your child and to locate resources in
your community.
Parents
