Abstract

Pediatric primary care settings with integrated behavioral health services are well positioned to identify, assess, treat, and triage common mental health, behavioral, and developmental issues that emerge in childhood. Designing, implementing, and evaluating screening processes is an essential element of integrated behavioral health programs serving children and their families. Screening efforts in pediatric primary care settings include assessment of maternal mood and family well-being, early childhood developmental screening, psychosocial screening, and adolescent depression screening. This chapter describes an integrated behavioral health services program, Project CLIMB, in which several screening initiatives were implemented and evaluated.