The growing number of adolescents receiving care for internalizing mental health problems and the increasing share receiving care in specialty outpatient settings have put new demands on specialty adolescent mental health treatment centers, according to results of a survey study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

“The mental health care system needs to adapt to these changes in the profiles of adolescent psychopathology,” Ramin Mojtabai, MD, PhD, MPH, of the department of mental health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Healio Psychiatry. “Providers working with adolescents in various settings are increasingly dealing with patients who are presenting with internalizing problems such as depression, anxiety and suicidal ideations. Not all providers and settings have the resources needed to deal with these types of problems.”