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Acknowledgments

Support for writing this essay was provided by cooperative agreement U45 MC 00174-10-0 from the Office of Adolescent Health, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Title V, Social Security Act), Health Resources and Services Administration (Weist, PI).

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  1. Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Center for School Mental Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 737 West Lombard Street, 4th Floor, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA

    Maura M. Mulloy-Anderson, N. Evangelista, J. Betkowski & M. Weist

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    Roger J. R. Levesque

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Mulloy-Anderson, M.M., Evangelista, N., Betkowski, J., Weist, M. (2018). Mental Health Screening. In: Levesque, R.J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33228-4_188

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