Child and Adolescent Mental Health
These resources from expert professional groups can help hospitals and health care systems optimize child and adolescent safety and outcomes.
Child and Adolescent Health: Resources from the FieldAlong with hospitals and health care system, communities and stakeholders are essential partners in creating a lasting impact on the health of children and adolescents.
Grasping the doctor’s explanation of a necessary treatment or medical procedure for a child can be intimidating for their parents, even more so when it’s not delivered in their primary language.
A trip to the hospital emergency department can be overwhelming for anyone, but for individuals with autism, the stress can be significantly heightened.
Children’s Specialized Hospital, a RWJBarnabas health facility with locations in New Jersey, has opened a new Autism Center of Excellence to help patients and their families navigate the treatment process.
Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego called the surge of children coming into its emergency department with behavioral health needs “unprecedented,” and responded by placing mental health professionals in primary care practices.
In this conversation, three experts from Dartmouth Health discuss their five-part virtual behavioral health training program, "Keeping Students Safe: Supporting Youth in Mental Health Distress."
Northern Light Acadia Hospital in Bangor, Maine, is addressing children’s mental health needs by providing psychological first aid training (PFA) to community partners including local school employees, camp counselors and hospital teams.
AdventHealth’s Be a Mindleader initiative aims to help children and parents become more comfortable discussing mental health and connect families to counseling services.
Lidera ConscienteMENTE is a first-of-its-kind destigmatization campaign creating curated expert information designed specifically for a Hispanic audience to encourage open conversations about mental health.