Psychologists’ Facilitation of Behavioral Health Screening in Pediatric Primary Care

This chapter provides the rationale for routine behavioral health screening in pediatric primary care and offers guidance to psychologists interested in acquiring the expertise to assist colleagues in primary care in implementing universal screening programs. The fundamentals of how screening initiatives can be introduced and sustained, including operational strategies, foci for screening, and tool selection, are presented. Areas of research that psychologists can pursue to transform screening practices that are evidence informed into those that are evidence based are discussed.