Primary Care Perspectives: Effective Communication with Patients with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders - Episode 102

Summary: Approximately 15% of school-age children and adolescents in the U.S. are thought to have an emotional or behavioral disorder, and nearly two-thirds receive no formal mental health care. Pediatricians are increasingly being called on to screen for and treat mental health problems. Billie Samantha Schwartz, PhD, a Psychologist in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, sits down to tackle common communication challenges faced by primary care providers, and how to find a common factors approach (as recommended by the AAP) to build into practice.