Ross Center psychiatrist Dr. Danny Pine was a featured guest on the PBS show, Healthy Minds in May, 2024. In this episode, he discussed the importance of diagnosing and treating anxiety in childhood and adolescence to decrease the risk of developing depression and other mental disorders later in life. He offers advice for parents to recognize the differences between normal worries and anxiety, and the impact of outside factors including bullying and social media. Anxiety is very common in children and teens, with well over 20% suffering from problematic anxiety at some point during development. He describes anxiety as a concern “when these fears and anxieties prevent the child from doing things that other kids can do.”
Watch this episode on PBS: Anxiety in Youth
