Pediatric Visit? Don’t Forget About Mental Health

Doctor examining child's throat during a check-up, with parent in the room

By Steven Schlozman, MD and Gene Beresin, Executive Director

Posted in: Grade School, Infants & Toddlers, Parenting Concerns, Pre-School, Teenagers, Young Adults

The Clay Center is an educational and informational outlet only, and so we do not provide clinical services or referrals for treatment. However, many of our partners here at MGH do.

Naturally, one of our biggest partners related to child and adolescent health is the MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC), which provides treatment and services for children of all ages in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery, as well as preventive and primary care.

Dr. Gene Beresin and Dr. Steve Schlozman recently produced two short videos for MGHfC with mental health considerations for parents and other caregivers, during their children’s inpatient and outpatient visits.

View Dr. Beresin’s video on Outpatient Pediatric Visits.

View Dr. Schlozman’s video on Inpatient Pediatric Visits.

There’s so much to think about when bringing your child in for any kind of medical appointment, that mental health can often be overlooked amidst the chaos of other concerns. We hope these videos will help you to be aware of behavioral, emotional and mental health within the context of other concerns, as part of addressing the overall health and well-being of young people.

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Steven Schlozman, MD

Steven Schlozman, MD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), course director of the psychopathology class for the MIT-HMS Program in Health, Sciences and Technology, and former co-director of the Clay Center for Youn...

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Gene Beresin, Executive Director

Gene Beresin, MD, MA is executive director of The MGH Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds, and a staff child and adolescent psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also...

To learn more about Gene, or to contact him directly, please see Our Team.