Providing Young Students a Much-Needed Mental Health Checkup

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Providing Young Students a Much-Needed

Mental Health Checkup

11 Apr 2003

By
Lila Corn

Kids and depression. Parents take their children in for a physical checkup every year. Now, a new program from Columbia University aims to give kids across the country a mental health check-up. The program uses a computer to screen for potential problems. Education reporter.

Produced by Lila Corn.

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http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/print_WABC_ourschools_041103teenscreen.html

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