Elana Bernstein, MD, Author at Daily Nurse

Elana Bernstein, MD

Disclosure: Elana Bernstein has received funding from her organization to examine school-based practices for youth with anxiety. She is currently working collaboratively on a federally funded (HRSA) grant aimed at improving behavioral health workforce education and training. Additionally, as part of a national research team focused on improving mental health screening practices, she is collaborating to develop a screening tool for emotional well-being in teens. This project was recently funded through the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy at the University of Connecticut via their Mechanisms Underlying Mind-Body Interventions & Measurement of Emotional Well-Being (M3EWB) Network, which is funded through the NIH (Grant #: NIH U24AT011281).

Stressed-out Kids: Task Force Recommends Anxiety Screening for 8 Year Olds. Here’s Why.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued a draft statement in April 2022 recommending screening for anxiety in children and adolescents between the ages of 8 and 18. This recommendation – which is still open for public comment – is timely, given […]

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