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In a new editorial published in JAMA Pediatrics, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, MD, medical director of The Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles discusses

Parents have few alternatives for children in crisis when mental health care is lacking.

Through most of her routine physical exam, the teenage girl chatted amiably with Sunanda Vadapalli, MD, a Valencia pediatrician. Then, at the doctor’s request, the girl’s mother stepped out of the

Recent studies have indicated an increased need for preventive mental health and social services among Filipinos, in part because of higher rates of problem behaviors such as substance use, high

It is estimated that five percent of children suffer from depression at any given time. The good news is that depression in children is highly treatable.