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Screening for Anxiety, Depression, and Suicide Risk in Children and Adolescents

Iris Mabry-Hernandez, MD, MPH
Radhika Agarwal, MD

American Family Physician. 2024;110(1):93-94.

Author disclosure: No relevant financial relationships.

This clinical content conforms to AAFP criteria for CME.

IRIS MABRY-HERNANDEZ, MD, MPH, is a medical officer with the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

RADHIKA AGARWAL, MD, is a preventive medicine fellow at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. See related USPSTF Clinical Summaries in the online version of this issue.

Author disclosure: No relevant financial relationships.

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This series is coordinated by Joanna Drowos, DO, contributing editor.

A collection of Putting Prevention Into Practice published in AFP is available at https://www.aafp.org/afp/ppip.

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