New Screening Approach Detects Childhood Mental Health Risks Traditional Methods Miss

• By: Christine Lehmann The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• August 12th, 2026
• adversity, childhood mental health, depression, NIH, pediatric primary care, screening, sleep disorders, unpredictability
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At a Glance Screening for home and family stresses may help identify children at risk for depression and sleep disorders that traditional adversity screening misses. This type of screening could be used to identify and intervene with children at risk of mental health...

Teen Mothers: When Stigma Trumps Compassion (and Research)

• By: Jean Wittenberg, MD The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
• July 18th, 2025
• adolescence, adversity, discrimination, healthcare, inequality, maternal mental health, pregnancy, social determinants of health, stigma, Summer 2025 Issue, support, teen motherhood
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Key points: Many teen mothers succeed but do so despite the stresses that stigma imposes on them. Stresses on both mothers and babies are associated with severe health consequences, sometimes affecting their entire lives. Healthcare providers are often experienced as stigmatizing by teen...