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Review
. 2024 Mar 1;49(3):40-47.
doi: 10.1097/01.NPR.0000000000000152.

The evidence-based COPE program: Reducing the time between diagnosing and treating depression and anxiety in youth

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk  1
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The evidence-based COPE program: Reducing the time between diagnosing and treating depression and anxiety in youth

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk. Nurse Pract. .

Abstract

The soaring prevalence of depression and anxiety in children, teenagers, and young adults is now a public health epidemic, yet access to timely evidence-based mental health treatment is often lacking due to a severe shortage of mental health providers. This article provides an overview of the current state of depression and anxiety in children and adolescents as well as first-line evidence-based treatment. The Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment (COPE) program, a cognitive-behavioral skills-building intervention, is highlighted as an evidence-based intervention for timely treatment that can be delivered by NPs, physicians, and physician associates/assistants in primary care settings, school-based health centers, and chronic care clinics with reimbursement as well as in schools and universities as a preventive mental health intervention.

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