Today’s kids and teens are facing an unprecedented mental health crisis.
Craigan Usher, M.D., professor of psychiatry in the OHSU School of Medicine and director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program, Ajit Jetmalani, M.D., Joseph Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Education and director of child and adolescent psychiatry in the OHSU School of Medicine, and Dana Braner, M.D., Credit Unions for Kids Chair in Pediatrics and physician-in-chief at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, discuss the causes and effects of the current youth mental health emergency and how OHSU and OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital are working to address it.