Kids, teens win when mental health providers team with pediatricians, family doctors

(University of California - Los Angeles) Amid growing interest in the value of teaming mental health providers with family doctors, the first meta-analysis of research on so-called 'integrated care' finds that children and adolescents were 66 percent more likely to have a positive outcome with the approach than with more traditional primary care. 'The take-home message is that integrated care works,' said lead author Joan Asarnow, a UCLA professor of psychiatry and director of the UCLA Youth Str...