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And be sure to download our app here: [ Ссылка ] Mental health focus: A national group of experts called the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has recommended that pediatricians screen children for anxiety and depression during their regular well checks. The recommendation, which came Tuesday, suggests kids as young as eight years old be screened for anxiety, and kids as young as 12 be screened for depression.

The guidance is a recommendation, not a requirement, and while pediatricians would screen for anxiety and depression, a diagnosis would come from a behavioral health specialist or psychologist.

Dr. Lisa Ramirez, associate director of pediatric psychology at MetroHealth, described the task force as a national collaboration of experts who look at research and identify best practices.

“What this U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is saying is that in all the research that they did around anxiety, they found that eight was really a critical point, where if you could start identifying children that are at risk for anxiety and challenges with anxiety, that there’s a lot of benefit to it,” Dr. Ramirez said, adding this was the same for depression and the age of 12.

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