The statistics on mental health problems in children

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The statistics on mental health problems in children

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A lot of parents are surprised by how come a mental health problem are in children. Couple of national data suggest that by age 21 over 90% of kids would have a mental health problem at some point. But only a small minority 20-40% of them get effective care. One reason in national study, thousands of teenagers 50% at one point in time had diagnoses but 64% of them got no care, 22% were on the severe range but most of them got no care. What would we think of our culture if the same thing is true about our kids dental health. Very common but only 20% of them got care and when they did they suffered for years and carries pedestrian. Images of walking around with their knuckles dragging on the ground come to mind but this is exactly what's true about our kids mental health. It's a social injustice, is this wrong of the thing, is a thing can be wrong and we need to put an end to it. A lot of parents I think don't take their kid in for a care because they think it means their kids are freak or they think they've done something wrong. We don't think that way about the pediatrician or the dentist. Our kids mental health problems are as commons as those problems most of the times they're not chronic or severe. They're easily address and we can get rid of needless suffering if we just think of it in a way it truly is.

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David Palmiter, PhD, ABPP

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Dr. David Palmiter is a professor of Psychology and Counseling at Marywood University. He is a practicing and board-certified clinical psychologist, a past president of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, the author of over three dozen publications, including two books on promoting resilience in youth, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (true of < 6% of psychologists), the American Academy of Clinical Psychology and the Pennsylvania Psychological Association in youth. He has also given hundreds of workshops on family issues for organizations such as The Navy SEAL Foundation, The Master Therapist Series at the University of Connecticut, The American Psychological Association and the McGraw-Hill Financial Group and completed hundreds of media projects for outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, US News and World Report and the Wall Street Journal. David is also a dad of three (two studying at Cornell University and one still in high school) and husband of 27 years to Dr. Lia Richards-Palmiter. A central aspect of his professional mission is to put air under the wings of parents as they try to raise happy and resilient children and teens.

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