Guest Editorial

This Issue: Assessment of Pediatric Mental Health

  • Pediatric Annals
  • October 2011 - Volume 40 · Issue 10: 472, 474
  • DOI: 10.3928/00904481-20110914-02
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Abstract

Before becoming a child psychiatrist, it was as a general pediatrician that I first witnessed the growing need to assess and effectively treat child and adolescent mental health concerns. It has been reported that about one in five children meet diagnostic criteria for having a mental health disorder, yet only about 20% ever receive treatment; it is what the American Academy of Pediatrics has labeled “the new morbidity.”

doi: 10.3928/00904481-20110914-02

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