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Providers: Concerned you lack mental health skill? That’s No Excuse
What do I do if I get a positive result from a teen mental health screening? It’s a question I get from my primary care colleagues when discussing the important role that we can play in reducing the impact of … Continue reading
Health Care Reform, the Supreme Court, and Teens
The Supreme Court has begun taking up the legal questions around the Affordable Care Act – health care reform. And, we are again reminded of the volatility of the health care policy debate and the very real impact of health … Continue reading
Bipolar Disorder in Adolescents: Improving Diagnosis in Primary Care
It’s a scenario unfolding in primary care offices every day: An adolescent is brought in by his parents, who voice concern about mood swings. He’s either irritable and apathetic or impulsive and ‘high energy’. They wonder if he is using … Continue reading
Teen Depression & Anxiety Disorders: How Can Primary Care Meet the Challenge?
It was the largest conference for pediatricians in the U.S., and Jefferson Prince MD, — instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of child psychiatry for the North Shore Medical Center in Salem, MA and medical director for the … Continue reading
Pediatricians in a Flash mob? What’s Happening with Our Kids’ Doctors
In my job as Deputy Director at TeenScreen National Center, I go to my fair share of mental health and medical meetings. I always come away with new information and some good ideas. But rarely do they have me nearly … Continue reading
The Mental Health Screening Dilemma
For many academics and researchers, the debate is over: The use of mental health screening questionnaires in a routine fashion in primary care offices greatly increases the detection of mental disorders among children and adolescents. With such information, the American … Continue reading
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