Sheinbein DH, et al. - Among treatment-seeking children with overweight/obesity, researchers studied the prevalence and factors associated with depression and anxiety symptoms. Study participants were 241 children (aged 7 to 11 years) and their parents who completed assessments prior to starting family-based behavioral weight loss treatment. The social-ecological model served as a framework to examine depression-related factors and symptoms of anxiety. Findings revealed that greater child depression symptomatology was related to child eating disorder pathology, the use of psychological control by parents (ie, a parenting style characterized by emotional manipulation), and lower child subjective social status. Higher child anxiety symptomatology was significantly linked to child eating disorder pathology and parent psychological control. According to the findings, nearly 40% of children had symptoms of psychopathology and they found a variety of correlates. Providers of pediatric weight loss should consider screening and addressing mental health concerns before and during treatment.