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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

Mad in America

I n a previous chapter I reported data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 11c that suicides for the years 2007 to 2017 increased by 30% while the teen rate (ages 10 to 24) increased by 56%! Inpatient psychiatric treatment requires that the patient must be both in an acute stage and be dangerous to self or others.

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How Pretend Play Helps Children Build Skills

Child Mind Intitute

Keough, PhD Psychologist, Anxiety Disorders Center Child Mind Institute Pretend play, also known as imaginative play, includes a range of imaginative behaviors and actions that become more complex over early childhood (Lillard et al., 2017, White et al., By Kathryn L. 2021; White & Carlson, 2021, White et al., Prager, E.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

Mad in America

The vast majority of psychiatrists and non-psychiatric physicians still hold onto the belief, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, that behavioral health disorders are diseases of the brain and for most of these “diseases” the primary and, for many of physicians, the sole treatment is pharmaceuticals!