Mental health screening and follow-up care in public high schools.

Mathilde M Husky, Marian Sheridan, Leslie McGuire, Mark Olfson

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2011.05.013

Journal: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Systematic voluntary school-based mental health screening and referral offers a feasible means of identifying and connecting high-risk adolescents to school- and community- based mental health services, although linkages to community-based services may require considerable coordination.