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Framework for Approaching Healthy Mental and Emotional Development in Pediatrics: Clinical Report

Evelyn Berger-Jenkins1, Jennifer K Poon2, Kathleen Hobson Davis3

  • 1Division of Child & Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York-Presbyterian, New York, New York.

Pediatrics
|April 26, 2026
PubMed

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Pediatricians can integrate mental and emotional health into whole child care, addressing barriers like limited resources. A stepped approach supports healthy child development and family well-being.

Area of Science:

  • Child Development
  • Pediatric Health
  • Mental Health Integration

Background:

  • Childhood mental and emotional concerns are rising significantly.
  • Pediatric care faces barriers in addressing these issues, including lack of time, comfort, and resources.
  • Research highlights the benefits of interventions fostering healthy relationships and whole health in child development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To reframe mental and emotional development as integral to pediatric whole health.
  • To present a practical, stepped approach for addressing mental and emotional health in pediatrics.
  • To advocate for expanded mental and emotional health resources for families.

Main Methods:

  • Review of current pediatric practices regarding child well-being.
  • Conceptual reframing of mental and emotional development within pediatric care.
  • Development of a stepped intervention model for pediatric mental health.

Main Results:

  • Pediatricians possess skills to address the physical, mental, emotional, developmental, and social well-being of children.
  • A whole health approach, focusing on prevention and long-term support, is beneficial for mental and emotional development.
  • The proposed stepped approach offers a framework for managing mental and emotional health concerns.

Conclusions:

  • Mental and emotional development should be viewed as a core component of pediatric whole health, not solely as a condition requiring diagnosis.
  • Integrating mental and emotional health into routine pediatric care is feasible and beneficial.
  • Advocacy is crucial to increase the availability of mental and emotional health resources for families.

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