KevinMD March 22, 2023
One in five children and adolescents will receive a behavioral or mental health diagnosis by 18. That is more than the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer (1 in 8). According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 50 percent of pediatric office visits involve behavioral, social-emotional, or developmental concerns. Seventy percent of behavioral health medications are prescribed by primary care clinicians. However, this data is from before the COVID-19 pandemic. Youth depressive symptoms have doubled since the onset of the pandemic, with one in three high school students feeling sad or hopeless. Visits to the emergency room for mental health concerns increased by 24 percent.
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