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Redressing the Emperor : Improving Our Children's Public Mental Health System (Contemporary Psychology)
Redressing the Emperor Improving Our Children's Public Mental Health System - Contemporary Psychology Author:John S. Lyons Lyons provides a fresh and thought-provoking understanding of the children's public mental health system, as well as the need to foster its evolution and improvement. He presents the history of child mental health systems, including the U.S. system's roots and the early 19th-century case of the Wild Boy of Aveyron, which demonstrated the potenti... more »ally therapeutic effects of environment. He shows us why modern leaders and Presidents have issued calls for improvements to the country's child mental health system, and what barriers have slowed or even halted this evolution. Such barriers, Lyons explains, can be removed with community development and better clinical outcomes management.« less