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Article: PCCY Surveys Philadelphia Pediatricians on Children's Mental Health Needs ; Findings Confirm Growing Need for More Providers and Better Training
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- December 6, 2006
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To: State Desk
Contact: Linda Wright Moore, 215-563-5848 ext. 23, Colleen
McCauley Brown, 215-563-5848 ext. 33, both for Philadelphia Citizens
for Children and Youth
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The results of a PCCY
survey of area pediatricians found that three-quarters of them don't
have time to deal with mental health concerns during routine
pediatrician visits, though most children -- nearly 98 percent -- use
a pediatrician as their entry point for any health care needs. Fifty-
seven percent of pediatricians said they lacked training to deal with
mental health needs, but reluctantly do so anyway because there are
so few specialists in children's mental health care. "I was not ...