Experts Recommend Anxiety Screening For Young Kids
Recent data proves what many people have suspected: Rates of anxiety and depression in children and teens rose during the pandemic. This has prompted first-time guidance calling for anxiety screening in children as young as eight years old.
The new guidance comes from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which is a group of volunteer experts from various health fields, and is the same group that makes recommendations for things such as cancer and diabetes screenings. The guidance suggests that all kids, eight years old and up, get screened for anxiety.
The group initially released a similar recommendation for older kids in 2016, but they’ve now expanded on that previous guidance.
They also said that kids between the ages of 12 and 18 should be screened for major depressive disorder, but they have issued that guidance in the past.
Pediatric psychiatrist Dr. Mitali Wadekar of Dignity Health Northridge Hospital in California spoke to The Daily Wire about this trend.- READ MORE
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