Prevention for Child Mental Health: Scientific Promise to Practical Benefit
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چکیده
It is time that we as a Nation took seriously the task of preventing mental health problems and treating mental illness in youth...Children are suffering needlessly because their emotional, behavioral and developmental needs are not being met by those very institutions which were explicitly created to take care of them (Report of the Surgeon General’s Conference on Children’s Mental Health, 2000).
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