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MHA is committed to promoting mental health as a critical part of overall wellness, including prevention services for all; early identification and intervention for those at risk; integrated care, services, and support for those who need them; with recovery as the goal.

IPT is a short-term treatment that is effective in treating depression in children. It is based on the idea that depression affects people’s relationships and these relationships further affect mood.

CBT focuses on the ways that a child or adolescents’ thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are interconnected, and how they each affect one another and has proven effective for treating anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), behavior problems, and substance abuse.

These are the search results for data using the search terms: “mental health and mental disorders.” Healthy People 2020 includes over 1,200 objectives to monitor and improve the health of all Americans over the decade.

Family therapy is a form of treatment that views psychological problems and their treatment in terms of the interactions among family members with a focus on relationship patterns and communication among family members.

EBTs are listed as ‘best practice’ and ‘preferred’ approaches for mental health symptom treatment by both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association.

EBA uses research and theory to guide choices about what to measure, how to measure it, and what to do next based on the results during clinical work.

DOE: School-Based Mental Health Services Grant Program, authorized by the 2020 Department of Education budget, provides $10 million to six states to increase the number of mental health service providers in schools.

DBT for adolescents is an evidence-based treatment originally developed for suicidal, multi-problem adolescents that synthesizes a variety of theoretical perspectives, including cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness/acceptance, biosocial, and a dialectical philosophy.