Experts Advise Routine Depression Screening for Teens
Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Mental Health Recovery News
The US Preventive Services Task Force says the rate of depression in children between 12 and 18 years old is high enough to warrant routine screening by their primary care physicians. The recommendation, announced in the latest issue of the journal, ‘Pediatrics,’ is a reversal of its recommendation of 2002 and comes in the wake of new therapies and antidepressant medications that are proving effective for treating depression in this age group. Depression affects an estimated one in 20 teenag
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