Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Rebecca B. Chickey, MPH, AHA鈥檚 senior director, behavioral health services, closes Mental Health Awareness Month with a blog highlighting what the AHA and member hospitals and health systems are doing to support American children and adolescents during the current mental health crisis and鈥
Adrienne Coopey, D.O., a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, discusses how a fully virtual collaborative care model helps deliver early behavioral health interventions and improve access and outcomes for children across West Virginia
Even before the COVID pandemic, the mental health and wellness of our young people was failing. The pandemic exacerbated the crisis and made it difficult for them to access needed care; many health care systems are still struggling to meet the challenge.
Access to youth and adolescent behavioral health care is a major challenge facing rural communities.
Across the nation, more and more hospitals and health systems are expanding access to treat the rapidly growing numbers of children and adults in crisis who need mental health services.
In observance of Children鈥檚 Mental Health Awareness Week May 4-10, the Health Resources and Services Administration highlighted its Pediatric Mental Health Care Access program that is available to provide free teleconsultation services for health professionals to help them better care for children鈥
Intermountain Primary Children鈥檚 Hospital has opened a new Applied Behavior Analysis Clinic in Riverton, Utah, that aims to address the growing need for autism services in the community.
This webinar explores the mental health challenges that today鈥檚 youth face and how health care organizations can integrate behavioral health to create support systems that foster the mental well-being of children and adolescents.
Advancing Health's series, 鈥淐aring for Our Kids,鈥 focuses on how pediatric hospitals are meeting the needs of their communities.
Shodair Children鈥檚 Hospital in Helena, Mont., has launched the Hope Campaign to reduce stigma and encourage conversations about youth mental health.