“…Further, others have found that pediatric PCPs' degree of comfort varies with respect to the type of presenting disorder (e.g. more comfortable addressing depression and ADHD than trauma and bipolar disorder), and that PCPs endorse feeling more comfortable assessing and diagnosing, rather than treating mental health disorders in youth (Miller, Johnston, Klassen, Fine, & Papsdorf, 2005;Williams et al, 2004). Despite such self-identified needs in addressing the mental health concerns of their youth patients and reported interest in formalized partnerships with mental health providers (Pidano, Honigfeld, Bar-Halpern, & vivian, 2014), pediatric PCPs endorse significant barriers to IPC with mental health providers in the community, including a lack of available specialists, time constraints, and insufficient knowledge about identifying and screening mental and behavioral health needs (Pidano et al, 2011).…”