Childhood anxiety - If we know so much, why are we doing so little?

Kristy Benoit Allen; Margaret Benningfield; Jennifer Urbano Blackford

doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.0585

Childhood anxiety - If we know so much, why are we doing so little?

Kristy Benoit Allen, Margaret Benningfield, Jennifer Urbano Blackford

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	887-888
Number of pages	2
Journal	JAMA Psychiatry
Volume	77
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.0585
State	Published - Sep 1 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Psychiatry and Mental health

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title = "Childhood anxiety - If we know so much, why are we doing so little?",

author = "Allen, {Kristy Benoit} and Margaret Benningfield and Blackford, {Jennifer Urbano}",

note = "Funding Information: The state of affairs for childhood anxiety in the United States requires substantial improvement, particularly when it comes to getting established treatments into the hands of those who need them. This necessitates a multifaceted call to action, coupled with financial support from major funding agencies. First, we need to develop innovative and scalable methods for identifying at-risk children early. Screening and early identification is critical to decreasing the enormous public health burden associated with childhood anxiety and its long-term sequalae, including addiction, depression, and suicide. Second, we need research that will systematically investigate how to effectively disseminate",

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