Background Mental health literacy has received increasing attention as a useful strategy to
promote early identification of mental disorders, reduce stigma and enhance help-seeking …

Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and
Possibilities Page 1 Committee on the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse …

Objective: This study documents the prevalence and impact of anxiety and depression in US
children based on the parent report of health care provider diagnosis. Methods: National …

OBJECTIVE: To present estimates of the lifetime prevalence of DSM-IV mental disorders
with and without severe impairment, their comorbidity across broad classes of disorder, and …

The present study evaluated a positive psychology school-based intervention aimed at
enhancing mental health and empowering the entire educational staff and students at a …

This article provides a review of the magnitude of mental disorders in children and
adolescents from recent community surveys across the world. Although there is substantial …

OBJECTIVE: This article presents the 12-month prevalence estimates of specific mental
disorders, their social and demographic correlates, and service use patterns in children and …

OBJECTIVE: To review recent progress in child and adolescent psychiatric epidemiology in
the area of prevalence and burden. METHOD: The literature published in the past decade …

Anxiety has been one of the most difficult areas of child psychopathology to study in
representative population samples. The main reasons for this are clinical uncertainty about …

The third edition of the hugely successful Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical
Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a reliable and accessible …