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Your article described my efforts to identify mental illness in children. One point I'd like to emphasize is that while my initial interest in families was stimulated by the negative effects certain types of families had on young patients, our current intervention is based on the remarkable strengths families can bring to treatment, rehabilitation and even prevention. Family members buffer the stresses that can negatively affect vulnerable youth. Most important, family members are often the first to notice something is not quite right and can make early referrals, enabling preventive treatment. We see the family...
Katherine Jackson, the singer's mother, has temporary guardianship of her son's three children. A guardianship hearing has been rescheduled for July...
...issued a statement urging British citizens not to panic despite a surge in the number of cases of H1N1 influenza in the country. Now it seems health officials have the opposite problem: they are urging parents not to hold "swine flu parties" that some people believe will build up children's immunity by infecting them with the virus...
...Parents in Britain have long held "chicken pox parties" at the beginning of summer so that children could catch the disease at a convenient time. But recent chatter on various Internet sites has health officials worried that parents are planning similar events for swine flu in order to make their children immune to the virus should it mutate into a more lethal form. In a statement on Tuesday, Sir Liam Donaldson, Britain's Chief Medical Officer, said such parties were the result of "seriously flawed thinking." (See pictures of swine flu hitting Mexico...
...David Cummings, a 50-year-old London resident whose two children are suspected of having swine flu, says he and other parents have a relaxed view of the virus, although he says no one would intentionally expose their children to the disease. "I don't know any parents seriously considering the idea of a swine flu party, but I think parents have seen how mild the illness is and are no longer anxious about their children contracting the illness," he says. Health officials may wince at such sangfroid in the face of the virus, but, says Cummings: "Parents are shrugging...