Editorial: Making the Case of Universal Mental Health Screening in Schools.

As the most common provider of child mental health services,1 schools are well positioned to be the most powerful lever for improving the prevention and treatment of mental health disorders in children and adolescents. As one component of a comprehensive school-based mental health program (ie, also referred to as Multi-Tiered Systems of Support [MTSS]),2 universal mental health screening can play several critical roles: identifying students in urgent need of attention, identifying at-risk students, monitoring the effects of school-wide interventions, as well as providing valuable psychoeducation to caregivers.3.