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Treat youth anxiety and depression with brief therapy in primary care
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30571
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , anxiety , referral , primary care , mental health , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , clinical psychology , family medicine , economics , macroeconomics
Transdiagnostic therapy — in which the same kind of treatment is used for more than one diagnosis — is cost‐effective for young people with anxiety and depression when done in primary care, compared with referral to community outpatient mental health care, a recent study has found.