Industry Voices—Want to improve access to teen mental health care? Prioritize these 3 changes

As a clinical psychologist, mom and former corporate executive managing a very large book of behavioral health business, I found these new resources and regulations to be a boost for this space but still inadequate and incomplete—especially when it comes to America’s youth.

Our main focus must be breaking out of a fee-for-service mindscape and reactive care mode that has dominated mental health care for too long. When service volume is the sole priority, it constrains us from having a more expansive mindset to experiment or iterate,...