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Addressing the Silent Mental Health Crisis of Children and Youth Around the World

Child Mind Intitute

This disparity especially impacts the child and adolescent population, as 90 percent of them live in LMICs (United Nations, 2011, Shinde, et al., Moreover, access to specialized mental health care and support services is limited or non-existent in many of these countries. Reliable data require reliable tools.

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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic

Mad in America

And the World Health Organization has called for a transformation of mental health services to focus on person-centered and rights-based approaches. Yet laypeople, and many mental health professionals, still believe that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder. But the promised gains never materialized.