Currently, in the United States and worldwide, the vast majority of children and adolescents
in need of mental health services receive no treatment. Although there are many barriers, a …

Remarkable progress has been made in developing psychosocial interventions for a broad
range of psychiatric disorders for children, adolescents, and adults. In addition many efforts …

How well are we doing, as a field, in generating youth treatments that work and in getting
those treatments to the youngsters who need them? In this chapter, the authors address this …

Background Within the past decade, health care service and research priorities have shifted
from evidence‐based medicine to personalized medicine. In mental health care, a similar …

Abstract This Special Section of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology focuses
on research that extends beyond documenting the efficacy and effectiveness of specific …

The prevalence of mental health problems among children (ages 0–21) in the United States
remains unacceptably high and, post-COVID-19, is expected to increase dramatically …

Children's and adolescents' mental health needs emphasize the necessity of a new era of
translational research to enhance development and yield better lives for children, families …

Psychological interventions to treat mental health issues have developed remarkably in the
past few decades. Yet this progress often neglects a central goal—namely, to reduce the …

Most youth psychotherapy research involves conditions quite unlike the clinical practice it is
designed to strengthen. Most studies have not tested interventions with clinically referred …

Abstract In April 2002, the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health was
created by executive order to study the mental health care delivery system in our nation and …