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Fostering Healthy Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Development in Children and Youth: A National Agenda (2019)

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Non-Systematic Review

Source: National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine   

Last Reviewed: 2019

Workgroups: Early and Middle Childhood Workgroup

Healthy mental, emotional, and behavioral development helps children thrive. This National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report looks at the complex factors that affect children growing up in the United States and provides a framework for a national approach to improving their mental, emotional, and behavioral health.

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Objectives related to this resource (5)

Increase the proportion of children and adolescents who communicate positively with their parents — EMC‑01
Getting worse
Increase the proportion of children and adolescents who get appropriate treatment for anxiety or depression — EMC‑D04
Developmental
Increase the proportion of children and adolescents who get appropriate treatment for behavior problems — EMC‑D05
Developmental
Increase the proportion of children and adolescents who get preventive mental health care in school — EMC‑D06
Developmental
Increase the proportion of children and adolescents who show resilience to challenges and stress — EMC‑D07
Developmental

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2019). Fostering Healthy Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Development in Children and Youth: A National Agenda. Retrieved from https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25201/fostering-healthy-mental-emotional-and-behavioral-development-in-children-and-youth.