Department of Psychology, Yale University.
Am Psychol. 2024 Jul-Aug;79(5):768-769. doi: 10.1037/amp0001379.
Coifman and Gunstad (2024) raise cogent points about childhood and adolescence as a place to begin to help close the mental health treatment gap, note the potential of applications (apps) as a modality of intervention given the pervasiveness of smartphones, and highlight a large-scale intervention study to convey that treatments can be scaled in outcome research. I expand the range of interventions we might consider, pose a best-buy approach to decide how and where to begin to address the treatment gap, and underscore that mental health problems in children, adolescents, and adults are on the rise. We still have no evidence that we can close the treatment gap and that to do so will require a marriage of multiple disciplines, interventions, and agencies to effect change. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
科夫曼和冈斯塔德（2024 年）提出了一些有说服力的观点，认为儿童和青少年时期是开始帮助缩小心理健康治疗差距的合适时机，指出鉴于智能手机的普及，应用程序（apps）作为一种干预手段具有潜力，并强调了一项大规模干预研究，以表明治疗方法可以在成果研究中进行扩展。我扩展了我们可能考虑的干预范围，提出了一种最佳购买方法来决定如何以及从何处开始解决治疗差距，并强调儿童、青少年和成年人的心理健康问题正在增加。我们仍然没有证据表明我们能够缩小治疗差距，而要做到这一点，需要多个学科、干预措施和机构的结合才能实现变革。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2024 APA，保留所有权利）。
